nimble-wittedness
nimble-wittedness noun: the characteristic of being nimble-witted, mental sharpness.
Noun
nimble-wittedness (uncountable)
- The characteristic of being nimble-witted, mental sharpness.
- Maycomb was an ancient town. It was twenty miles east of Finch’s Landing, awkwardly inland for such an old town. But Maycomb would have been closer to the river had it not been for the nimble-wittedness of one Sinkfield, who in the dawn of history operated an inn where two pig-trails met, the only...1960, Harper Lee, chapter 13, in To Kill a Mockingbird, New York: Harper Perennial Classics, published 2002, pages 147–148
Origin of nimble-wittedness
From nimble-witted + -ness.
Questions about nimble-wittedness
- What does nimble-wittedness mean?
- Nimble-wittedness means the characteristic of being nimble-witted, mental sharpness.
- What part of speech is nimble-wittedness?
- Nimble-wittedness is a noun.
Words near nimble-wittedness in the dictionary
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