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RAPIDITY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does rapidity mean?

• RAPIDITY (noun)
The noun RAPIDITY has 1 sense:

1. a rate that is rapid

Familiarity information: RAPIDITY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• RAPIDITY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A rate that is rapid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

celerity; rapidity; rapidness; speediness; quickness

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)

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