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Rapidity


RAPID'ITY, noun [Latin rapiditas.]

1. Swiftness; celerity; velocity; as the rapidity of a current; the rapidity of motion of any kind.

2. Haste in utterance; as the rapidity of speech or pronunciation.

3. Quickness of progression or advance; as rapidity of growth or improvement.