rapidity
noun
a rapid state or quality; quickness; celerity.
rapidities
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pluralof rapidity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Tiny spiderlike shells with outboard motors swarmed everywhere boasting varied, astonishing rapidities over 30 m. p. h.
From Time Magazine Archive
I merely look on at the rapidities of change with unalloyed interest.
From The Head of the House of Coombe by Frances Hodgson Burnett
He hadn't even to dot his i's beyond the remark that on the very face of it, she would remember, their wonderful system attached no premium to rapidities of transition.
From The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by Henry James
Different kinds of apples brown with different rapidities, and the browning always begins at the core.
From Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Arthur Morrison
Loudon returned thither from Vienna April 7th; but is not to command in chief, this Year,—Schweidnitz still sticking in some people's throats: "Dangerous; a man with such rash practices, rapidities and Pandour tendencies!"
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Thomas Carlyle
