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RAPIDITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A rate that is rapid
Synonyms:
celerity; quickness; rapidity; rapidness; speediness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("rapidity" is a kind of...):
pace; rate (the relative speed of progress or change)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rapidity"):
fleetness (rapidity of movement)
immediacy; immediateness; instancy; instantaneousness (the quickness of action or occurrence)
despatch; dispatch; expedition; expeditiousness (the property of being prompt and efficient)
promptitude; promptness (the characteristic of doing things without delay)
Derivation:
rapid (done or occurring in a brief period of time)
rapid (characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed)
Context examples:
The rapidity with which such a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be an advantage.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He is so gentle, yet so wise; his mind is so cultivated, and when he speaks, although his words are culled with the choicest art, yet they flow with rapidity and unparalleled eloquence.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
And the parrot would say, with great rapidity, Pieces of eight!
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The worn-out past was sunk in the freshness of what was coming; and in the rapidity of half a moment's thought, she hoped Mr. Elton would now be talked of no more.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Being already no stranger to the general rapidity of my aunt's evolutions, I was not surprised by the suddenness of the proposal, and said: “Yes.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The rapidity of their progress, in some instances, was even surprising; and an honest and happy pride I took in it: besides, I began personally to like some of the best girls; and they liked me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I was carried through the streets with the rapidity of lightning, said she, and taken into a soldier’s room, and I had to wait upon him like a servant, sweep his room, clean his boots, and do all kinds of menial work.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Many had looked on each other, and many had repeated the name, before all this had been got through, even by the smart rapidity of a waiter.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The word 'limes' was like fire to powder, his yellow face flushed, and he rapped on his desk with an energy which made Jenny skip to her seat with unusual rapidity.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
