celerity
Syllables: ce·ler·i·ty/sɪˈlɛɹɪti//səˈlɛr.ɪ.ti/
celerity noun: speed, swiftness.
Noun
celerity (usually uncountable, plural celerities)
- Speed, swiftness.
- 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.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- ...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,...1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 153
- The speed of an individual wave (as opposed to the speed of groups of waves); often denoted c.
- The speed with which a perturbation to the flow propagates through the flow domain.
- The speed of symbol transmission, now called baud rate.
- Celerity of dispatching the Chappe telegraph [section title]1867, Taliaferro Preston Shaffner, The Telegraph Manual
- ...and many endeavours have been made, not only to transmit signals with celerity, but also to transmit more than one communication at the same time along the same wire.1885, The Wonders of the Universe, Cassell Publishing Company
celerity meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
celerity in Tamil
- விரைவு, வேகம்
celerity in Urdu
- فوری, شتابی
celerity in Bengali
- দ্রুততা, কাজের, গতির ক্ষিপ্রতা
celerity in Malayalam
- വേഗം, ശീഘ്രത
More languagesFewer languages
- celerity in Sanskrit
- जव java, जुवस् juvas
- celerity in Malay
- laju rambat
Examples of celerity in a sentence
- 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.1851, Herman Melville, chapter 48, in Moby-Dick:
- The celerity of executions is a generally neglected issue in the empirical literature on deterrence and capital punishment.1998, Hugo Adam Bedau, The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies:
- As of 2006, celerity has disappeared entirely from the deterrence equation among both high- and low-volume executing jurisdictions.2007, Rudolph Joseph Gerber, John M. Johnson, The Top Ten Death Penalty Myths: The Politics of Crime Control:
Synonyms of celerity
Antonyms
Forms of celerity
| plural | celerities |
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Origin of celerity
From Old French celeritee (compare French célérité), from Latin celeritas, from celer (“fast, swift”).
Words that rhyme with celerity
Questions about celerity
- What does celerity mean?
- Celerity means speed, swiftness.
- What is celerity in Tamil?
- Celerity in Tamil is விரைவு, வேகம். See Celerity meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use celerity in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is celerity?
- Celerity is a noun.
- How do you pronounce celerity?
- Celerity is pronounced /sɪˈlɛɹɪti/.
- What is the plural of celerity?
- The plural of celerity is celerities.
Words near celerity in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: celerity (page history and authors); celerity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); celerity (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Celerity (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); celerity (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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