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Word of the Day for Friday, August 14, 2009celerity \suh-LAIR-uh-tee\, noun: Rapidity of motion or action; quickness; swiftness. Though not in the best of physical form, he was capable of moving with celerity. Furthermore, as is well known, computer technology grows obsolete with amazing celerity. The lightning celerity of his thought processes took you on a kind of helter-skelter ride of surreal non-sequiturs, sudden accesses of emotion and ribald asides, made all the more bizarre for being uttered in those honeyed tones by the impeccably elegant gent before you. Celerity is from Latin celeritas, from celer, "swift." It is related to accelerate. | |||||||||
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