as in velocity
a high rate of movement or performance
the rapidity with which she can do mental math calculations is amazing
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Recent Examples of rapidity
This rapidity of implementation means that attorneys cannot wait to see how things might develop but must start preparing, or at least learning about it, now.
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Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
The rapidity and the terseness of the onscreen action leaps from scene to scene, from event to event, from one salient point to the next, with nothing incidental in between, nothing revealing anything besides what directly elucidates the story as Polanski chooses to tell it.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
But there was an undeniable disconnect between the skepticism and anti-commercialism of Squid Game’s worldview and the rapidity with which the series became merch.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 June 2025
The rapidity of this population decline has forced significant revisions to official estimates of how fast China will age.
—Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 3 May 2022
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Only seven qualified starters last season featured a fastball with an average velocity lower than Suárez’s, but the crafty lefty secured a $130 million deal that will serve as a referendum on results over stuff in a modern game obsessed with velocity.—
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Until recently, such states were believed to depend on electrons behaving like identifiable particles with clear velocities and energies.—
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In a field experiment with hundreds of consultants, GPT-4 improved speed and quality on some knowledge tasks while performance dropped on other, seemingly similar tasks just outside its strengths.—
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Tapascott said speed alone no longer excites drivers.—
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“Rapidity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rapidity. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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