Celerity

//sɪˈlɛɹɪti//

Synonyms for "celerity" (51 found)

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Translations

17 translations across 12 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • бързина noun (speed)
  • скорост noun (speed)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • rapideco noun (speed)

French

2 entries
  • célérité noun (speed)
  • célérité noun (speed of individual waves)

Ido

1 entries
  • rapideso noun (speed)

Korean

1 entries
  • 민첩함, 기민함 noun (speed)

Malay

1 entries
  • laju rambat noun (speed of individual waves)

Norwegian

1 entries
  • seleritet noun (speed)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • celeridade noun (speed)
  • celeridade noun (speed of individual waves)

Sanskrit

2 entries
  • जव noun (speed)
  • जुवस् noun (speed)

Spanish

1 entries
  • celeridad noun (speed)

Turkish

2 entries
  • hız noun (speed)
  • çabukluk noun (speed)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • швидкість noun (speed)

Sample sentences

10 total sentences available.

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The exquisite feminine beauty of her countenance, now shaded only by a profusion of sunny tresses; the sylph-like form, disencumbered of her heavy riding-skirt and mantled in azure silk; the grace of her manner and of her smile, cleared, with a celerity which surprised the Master himself, all the gloomy and unfavourable thoughts which had for some time overclouded his fancy.

Source: tatoeba (7760551)

O most kind maid, / It was the swift celerity of his death, / Which I did think with slower foot came on, / That brain'd my purpose.

Source: wiktionary

...when a new medium for attraction was started in the bazaar to which we have alluded, and her letter was dispatched with all possible celerity, insisting that her daughters "should work day and night"—so ran the document—for three weeks,...

Source: wiktionary

The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.

Source: wiktionary

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