quickening
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
The first fetal movements felt by the mother, typically around 18 to 20 weeks in a first pregnancy.
She reported quickening at around nineteen weeks.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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