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RAPIDNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rapidness mean?
• RAPIDNESS (noun)
The noun RAPIDNESS has 1 sense:
1. a rate that is rapid
Familiarity information: RAPIDNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A rate that is rapid
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
celerity; quickness; rapidity; rapidness; speediness
Hypernyms ("rapidness" is a kind of...):
pace; rate (the relative speed of progress or change)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rapidness"):
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)
Derivation:
rapid (done or occurring in a brief period of time)
rapid (characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed)
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