[f. SOON adv. + -NESS.] The condition or quality of being soon; speediness, earliness.
1668. Wilkins, Real Char., II. xii. § 2. 289. The next pair, soonness and lateness, doth relate to time future.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.), Earliness,… soonness in Time.
1864. N. Brit. Daily Mail, 6 Dec. We went across the Clyde Street ferry, just for soonness.
1869. J. Eadie, Comm. Galatians, Introd. p. xli. What surprised the apostle was the soonness of the defection.
