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Another word for rapidity

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Noun

  1. Rapidness of movement or activity

    See also:

    fast

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Another word for rapidity

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

  • Vibrations increase in rapidity as a note rises and decrease as it falls.

  • She wrote with the rapidity of Walter Scott and the regularity of Anthony Trollope.

  • She can add and subtract with great rapidity up to the sum of one hundred; and she knows the multiplication tables as far as the FIVES.

  • The rapidity of the Russian pursuit was just as destructive to our army as the flight of the French was to theirs.

  • In this way a train is distributed with great rapidity, especially if the points giving access to the different sidings are worked by power so that they can be quickly manipulated.

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