rapidity

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity of growth or improvement.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

quickness celerity rapidness speed velocity agility haste fleetness swiftness speediness rate despatch FAST rapid momentum
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Antonyms

delay gap clearance obstruction hesitation impediment
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Hypernyms

rate pace

Hyponyms

despatch dispatch immediacy promptness fleetness expedition

Examples

They look quite promising in the shop, and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels sorry for them. Joyce Grenfell

From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling. Henry Charles Carey

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. Charles Babbage

When public opinion changes, it is with the rapidity of thought. Thomas Jefferson

The military principles of Caesar were those of Hannibal, and those of Hannibal were those of Alexander - to hold his forces in hand, not to be vulnerable at any point, to throw all his forces with rapidity on any given point. Napoleon Bonaparte

the merchant had observed that the marginal utility of daughters decreases with surprising rapidity. Joan Robinson

Close letter words and terms

rapid-setting concrete rapidcreekite Rapides Parish rapidless rapidly rapidly spreading