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celerity

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of celerity

a high rate of movement or performance

a journalist who writes his well-crafted stories with remarkable celerity

Synonyms of celerity

fastness, fleetness, haste, hurry, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speed, speediness, swiftness, velocity

Words Related to celerity

clip, gait, pace, rate, tempo

acceleration, hastiness, precipitation, precipitousness, rush

alacrity, dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness, promptitude, promptness

Near Antonyms of celerity

languidness, languor, leisureliness, lethargy, torpidity, torpor

deliberateness, deliberation

dilatoriness, lateness, pokiness, procrastination

Antonyms of celerity

slowness, sluggishness

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