smartness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SM'ARTNESS, noun 1. The quality of being smart or pungent; poignancy; as the smartness of pain. 2. Quickness; vigor; as the smartness of a blow. 3. Liveliness; briskness; vivacity; wittiness; as the smartness of a reply or of a phrase.
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