[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being expeditious; celerity; handiness.
1708. Lond. Gaz., No. 4426/12. Whose audacious Attempts … are … by the Expeditiousness of your Fleet, totally … defeated.
1715. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., I. 86. He was thought to have surpass’d … Ovid for Expeditiousness in Versifying.
1861. Smiles, Engineers, II. 222. The simplicity, economy, and expeditiousness of the plan.
