rapidity
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4.6
- noun
- /rəˈpɪdəti/
:
rapidez
- The rapidity with which she completed her project impressed everyone in the team.
- with great rapidity
- with amazing rapidity
- the rapidity of change
It's a little harder to pick and actually pluck with the same rapidity that you can on a guitar.
- It's a little harder to pick and actually pluck with the same rapidity that you can on a guitar.
- Now along comes Napster and music sales start getting gutted with extreme rapidity.
- We'd be lost where where we sort of we've, we've become adapted to it with astonishing rapidity.
- This is one of the things about like a kid like Sam, who even more than either of us in terms of the rapidity of his change of status.
- But I feel like, you know, we live in a transparent age and that stuff doesn't fly anymore and things get rooted out with, with, you know, extreme rapidity.
Examples
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Herman's predictions have been validated with astonishing rapidity and singular effect.
Academic text (1993) -
A key obstacle to vaccine development is the extraordinary variability of HIV and the rapidity and extent of HIV mutation.
Academic text (1999) -
As well as by the rapidity with which you ate that cake...
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Extreme rapidity makes it very difficult for a subject to lie.
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There is less concern about the rapidity of a student's responses to questions than about the content of those responses.
Academic text (2004) -
Signs of their growing sense of efficacy included the increasing rapidity with which they took on new challenges.
Academic text (1995) -
The more important historical circumstance is the rapidity with which the term became part of the national vocabulary.
Academic text (2015) -
Soon Nauvoo grew, with magical rapidity, from a few rude homes to a magnificent city.
Blog text (6) -
Atoms always vibrate with such great rapidity that they seem motionless to the physical eye.
Blog text (14) -
For Jessica's first four or five years, her all-sensory, interactive cognitive skills blossomed with amazing rapidity.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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2.1
The speed or amount at which something happens over time
∞
1.0
How fast someone or something moves
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2.0
How fast someone or something moves
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2.8
Ability to move the body very fast and with good control
10
2.5
A speed that is quicker than usual for a task or activity
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2.9
A speed of progress much faster than usual
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2.9
Great speed in moving or acting
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6.8
Quick and light movement that makes someone move fast
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9.9
Great speed when moving or doing something
The speed at which something moves or happens
How fast something happens or is done
Antonyms
How Fast
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word rapidity comes from rapid, a word that long ago meant a quick, rushing movement and appears in river rapids, where the water moves very fast. So, rapidity means 'great speed' or how quickly something happens.