FASTNESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does fastness mean?
• FASTNESS (noun)
The noun FASTNESS has 3 senses:
1. a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens
2. the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
3. a strongly fortified defensive structure
Familiarity information: FASTNESS used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• FASTNESS (noun)
Meaning:
A rate (usually rapid) at which something happens
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
fastness; swiftness; speed
Context example:
the project advanced with gratifying speed
Hypernyms ("fastness" is a kind of...):
pace; rate (the relative speed of progress or change)
Attribute:
fast (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly)
slow (not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fastness"):
haste; hastiness; hurriedness; hurry; precipitation (overly eager speed (and possible carelessness))
execution speed ((computer science) the speed with which a computational device can execute instructions; measured in MIPS)
graduality; gradualness (the quality of being gradual or of coming about by gradual stages)
Meaning:
The quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
fixity; fastness; fixedness; secureness; fixture
Hypernyms ("fastness" is a kind of...):
immovability; immovableness (not capable of being moved or rearranged)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fastness"):
lodgement; lodging; lodgment (the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily)
Meaning:
A strongly fortified defensive structure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
stronghold; fastness
Hypernyms ("fastness" is a kind of...):
defence; defense; defensive structure (a structure used to defend against attack)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fastness"):
bastion; citadel (a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle)
blockhouse (a stronghold that is reinforced for protection from enemy fire; with apertures for defensive fire)
hold (a stronghold)
donjon; dungeon; keep (the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress)
redoubt; sconce (a forbidding stronghold)
