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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 rapidplay

  Familiarity information: RAPIDNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RAPIDNESS (noun)


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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