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What is the noun for promptness?

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prompt
  1. A reminder or cue.
  2. (business, dated) A time limit given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods.
  3. (computing) A symbol that appears on a monitor to indicate that the computer is ready to receive input.
  4. (writing) A suggestion for inspiration given to an author.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Alexander is passive in his own way, needing a prompt from a third party to make a play for Sonia.”
promptness
  1. The habit or characteristic of doing things without delay.
  2. The habit of adhering to a designated time.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Members of the Committee are commended because of the alertness that caused them to react with promptness and vigor in the most recent crisis.”
      “The terms of membership shall be punctuality and promptness in attending the exercises of the Sabbath school.”
      “My self-righteousness faded immediately, for the principal replied with astonishing promptness and courtesy.”
prompting
  1. The action of saying something to persuade, encourage, or remind someone to do or say something.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “After some rather blunt prompting by me, they start to give some responses.”
prompture
promptitude
  1. The quality of being prompt; alacrity.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Anson has been undeservedly blamed for vacillation and want of promptitude.”
      “But what has been sought with eagerness ought to be acknowledged with promptitude.”
      “I only grieve they cannot be put in execution with the promptitude that I desire.”
prompter
  1. (theater) The person who does the prompting.
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promptitudes
promptnesses
promptures
  1. plural of prompture
promptings
  1. plural of prompting
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  3. Examples:
    1. “By representing his figure with a broad forehead, Powers gave her the sensitivity requisite to respond to the promptings of a divining rod.”
      “There, too, the powers of which the supraliminal self has lost control continue to act in obedience to subliminal promptings.”
      “Alice cannot forget her part in that Bombay tableau or in those lake promptings.”
prompters
  1. plural of prompter
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The advent of audio cassettes and prompters for the visually impaired seem to be a blessing.”
      “As Wilson sits, singing from a pair of lyric prompters, he gesticulates in an arrhythmic, unsettling fashion.”
      “The prompters had to have good eyesight as they generally had to depend on candlelight to read the script.”
prompts
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