Swiftness

  • 1Swiftness — Swift ness, n. The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 2swiftness — index haste Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 3swiftness — swift ► ADJECTIVE 1) happening quickly or promptly. 2) moving or capable of moving at high speed. ► NOUN ▪ a fast flying insect eating bird with long, slender wings, spending most of its life on the wing. DERIVATIVES swiftly adverb swiftness noun …

    English terms dictionary

  • 4swiftness — noun Date: before 12th century 1. the quality or state of being swift ; celerity 2. the fact of being swift …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 5swiftness — See swiftly. * * * …

    Universalium

  • 6swiftness — noun the state of being swift Syn: celerity, haste, rapidity …

    Wiktionary

  • 7swiftness — Synonyms and related words: abruptness, agility, air speed, alacrity, bat, brevity, briefness, briskness, celerity, decisiveness, dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness, fastness, feverishness, flight, flit, flurry, furiousness, gait, ground speed …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 8swiftness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. acceleration, velocity, rapidity; see speed . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Rapidness of movement or activity: celerity, dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness, fleetness, haste, hurry, hustle, quickness, rapidity,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 9swiftness — swift·ness || swɪftnɪs n. quality of being swift, speed, quickness …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 10swiftness — n. Quickness, celerity, velocity, rapidity, speed, fleetness …

    New dictionary of synonyms

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