1.1The fact of happening at a great rate; swiftness.
‘technology spreads with extraordinary rapidity’
‘During that month of June the events have succeeded themselves with great rapidity.’
‘In fact, I can turn them over with frightening rapidity.’
‘Perhaps our concept of justification is not itself precise enough to require a precise degree of ease or rapidity of access.’
‘The idea of the ` movement of movements ' has proved with extraordinary rapidity to lead nowhere.’
‘My sentiments became elevated with the most inconceivable rapidity to the level of my ideas.’
‘The total breakdown of the socialist economies of Eastern Europe, on which East Germany was almost entirely dependent, occurred with startling rapidity.’
‘In the same fashion, the rapidity with which you go through the adaptation is highly individual.’
‘We just could not afford either the rapidity or the nature of some of his political experiments.’
‘He "was promoted with spectacular rapidity to the post of political editor," the Guardian notes.’
‘Inspirational talent from Northern Ireland whose rapidity around the green baize earned him the nickname "Hurricane" Higgins.’
‘Reason: the unprecedented rapidity with which the hitherto relatively sedentary human populations are inter-mixing across the globe.’
‘Second, the rapidity of such character analyses enables a large number of research workers to propose phylogenies based on various sets of characters.’
‘Once that accessibility was achieved, the technology began to diffuse with increasing rapidity.’
‘That may be valid for some businesses, especially in view of the rapidity of technological changes.’
‘We can only hope that the projection does not become more pessimistic with equal rapidity.’
‘He was amazed at the rapidity of it all.’
‘The British found out toward the end of the 19th century that a seemingly unassailable international power position can melt away with unexpected rapidity.’
‘The rapidity of that shift depends on the rate of advance of battery technology.’
‘The town was commenced in 1837, and has increased with remarkable rapidity.’
‘There were many who located in the new city and building began to go on with increasing rapidity.’
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