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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SWIFTNESS

n.Speed; rapid motion; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity. Swiftness is a word of general import, applicable to every kind of motion, and to every thing that moves; as the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SWIFTNESS

SWIFTNESS Swift "ness, n.

 

Defn: 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.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

swiftness

swiftness noun 1 the children had the swiftness of weasels: speed, speediness, quickness, velocity, celerity, fleetness, fastness, rapidity, rapidness, liveliness; informal nippiness. ANTONYMS slowness, sluggishness. 2 bankruptcy can happen with surprising swiftness: suddenness, abruptness, instantaneity, rapidity, rapidness, haste, hastiness, briskness, hurriedness, hurry. 3 the answer came with unwanted swiftness: promptness, immediateness, immediacy, instantaneousness, rapidity, rapidness, dispatch, punctuality; alacrity, expeditiousness, readiness, willingness. ANTONYMS lateness, tardiness.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

swiftness

sw í ft ness 名詞 U すばやさ, 敏速さ .

 

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