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English Dictionary: celerity by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
celerity
n
  1. a rate that is rapid [syn: celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Celerity \Ce*ler"i*ty\, n. [L. celeritas, from celer swiftm
      speedy: sf. F. c[82]l[82]rit[82].]
      Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness.
  
               Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly to him whose
               whole employment is to watch its flight. --Johnson.
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