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SPEEDINESS
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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 ("speediness" is a kind of...):
pace; rate (the relative speed of progress or change)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "speediness"):
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:
speedy (accomplished rapidly and without delay)
speedy (characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed)
