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Nimbleness

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nim·ble  (nmbl)
adj. nim·bler, nim·blest
1. Quick, light, or agile in movement or action; deft: nimble fingers. See Synonyms at dexterous.
2. Quick, clever, and acute in devising or understanding: nimble wits.
[Middle English nemel, from Old English nmel, quick to seize and numol, quick at learning; see nem- in Indo-European roots.]
nimble·ness n.
nimbly adv.
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Noun1.nimbleness - intelligence as revealed by quickness and alertness of mind; "nimbleness of wit and imagination"
mental dexterity
intelligence - the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience
2.Nimblenessnimbleness - the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble
agility, legerity, lightsomeness, lightness
gracefulness - beautiful carriage
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No doubt a fair amount of climbing up iron ladders can be achieved by an active man in a ship's engine-room, but I remember moments when even to my supple limbs and pride of nimbleness the sailing- ship's machinery seemed to reach up to the very stars.
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The nimbleness of a dancing-master is not at all prejudiced by being taught to move; nor doth any mechanic, I believe, exercise his tools the worse by having learnt to use them.
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Mugridge seemed to be in rabid fear of the water, and he exhibited a nimbleness and speed we did not dream he possessed.
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