Rapidity
noun
The quality of being fast or quick in motion or action.
The rapidity of his response was astonishing.
Often appears as...
- rapidity of movement
- rapidity of change
noun
The quality of being fast or quick in motion or action.
The rapidity of his response was astonishing.
Often appears as...
- rapidity of movement
- rapidity of change
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Situational Use
Use 'rapidity' when describing something that happens very quickly, especially changes or actions.
The rapidity with which the team adapted to new strategies was impressive.
Pro Tip 2/3Emphasis on Speed
'Rapidity' emphasizes the remarkable speed of an event or action, often exceeding normal expectations.
She finished the exam with rapidity, leaving the room first.
Pro Tip 3/3Contextual Variety
'Rapidity' can be applied in various contexts, from physical movements to intellectual processes.
The scientist was praised for the rapidity of his mental calculations.
Pro Tip 1/3Situational Use
Use 'rapidity' when describing something that happens very quickly, especially changes or actions.
The rapidity with which the team adapted to new strategies was impressive.
Pro Tip 2/3Emphasis on Speed
'Rapidity' emphasizes the remarkable speed of an event or action, often exceeding normal expectations.
She finished the exam with rapidity, leaving the room first.
Pro Tip 3/3Contextual Variety
'Rapidity' can be applied in various contexts, from physical movements to intellectual processes.
The scientist was praised for the rapidity of his mental calculations.
Pro Tip 1/3Situational Use
Use 'rapidity' when describing something that happens very quickly, especially changes or actions.
The rapidity with which the team adapted to new strategies was impressive.
Pro Tip 2/3Emphasis on Speed
'Rapidity' emphasizes the remarkable speed of an event or action, often exceeding normal expectations.
She finished the exam with rapidity, leaving the room first.
Pro Tip 3/3Contextual Variety
'Rapidity' can be applied in various contexts, from physical movements to intellectual processes.
The scientist was praised for the rapidity of his mental calculations.
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about each of these four is we understand something about the brain circuits that are associated with them and each of these circuits exhibits plasticity. The first is resilience. We define resilience as the rapidity with which you recover from adversity. And it turns out that
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to pick something up, to form a word or to sit up -- new synaptic connections are being built in the brain. New parents are astonished by the rapidity of this learning. They are quite rightly amazed and delighted by their children's cleverness.
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The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart.
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Now, the external work of man is of the most varied kind as regards the force or ease, the form and rapidity, of the motions used on it, and the kind of work produced.
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William Shatner
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The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.
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George Henry Lewes
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The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.
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Charles Babbage
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Henry Lawson
Australian Writer
The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.
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Ellen Key
Swedish Writer
The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery, a devotion to duty, a sense of honour - habits that adults get out of with astonishing rapidity.
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Joyce Grenfell
English Actress
They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.
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Marianne Williamson
American Author
The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle.
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Archibald Hill
English Psychologist
One of the fundamental characteristics of striated muscle, and the one involving the greatest difficulty in investigation, is the great rapidity with which changes take place in it.
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Greg Boyle
American Clergyman
The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart.
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Hermann von Helmholtz
German Physicist
Now, the external work of man is of the most varied kind as regards the force or ease, the form and rapidity, of the motions used on it, and the kind of work produced.
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William Shatner
Canadian Actor
The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.
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George Henry Lewes
English Philosopher
The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.
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Charles Babbage
English Mathematician
Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
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