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Word of the Day for Friday, August 14, 2009 celerity \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. -- Malachy McCourt, A Monk Swimming: A Memoir Furthermore, as is well known, computer technology grows obsolete with amazing celerity. -- Alan S. Blinder and Richard E. Quandt, "The Computer and the Economy", The Atlantic, December 1997 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. -- "A life full of frolics", The Guardian, May 19, 2001 Celerity is from Latin celeritas, from celer, "swift." It is related to accelerate. Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for celerity Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help
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