SPEEDINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does speediness mean? 

• SPEEDINESS (noun)
  The noun SPEEDINESS has 1 sense:

1. a rate that is rapid

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPEEDINESS (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 ("speediness" is a kind of...):

pace; rate (the relative speed of progress or change)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "speediness"):

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:

speedy (accomplished rapidly and without delay)

speedy (characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed)