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SWIFTNESS

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Dictionary entry overview: What does swiftness mean?

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

1. a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens

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

Dictionary entry details

• SWIFTNESS (noun)

Sense 1

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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 ("swiftness" 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 "swiftness"):

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)

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