Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RA-PID'I-TY
RA-PID'I-TY, n. [L. rapiditas; Fr. rapidité, supra.]
- Swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; the rapidity of motion of any kind.
- Baste in utterance; as, the rapidity of speech or pronunciation.
- Quickness of progression or advance; as, rapidity of growth or improvement.
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