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Another word for fleetness

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Noun

  1. Rapidness of movement or activity

    See also:

    fast

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Another word for fleetness

Noun
  1. See also:

    speed

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • Achilles is a typical Greek hero; handsome, brave, celebrated for his fleetness of foot, prone to excess of wrath and grief, at the same time he is compassionate, hospitable, full of affection for his mother and respect for the gods.

  • All are terrestrial, and in many cases burrowing, in their habits, and some of them are of extreme fleetness.

  • The adult bird in the wild state is exceedingly shy and difficult of approach, and, owing to its great fleetness and strength, is rarely if ever caught.

  • ordinary fleetness.

  • wheezy old organ at Knole into life and in playing with fleetness and clarity.

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