the rapidity with which she can do mental math calculations is amazing
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The two women’s powerful, mysterious bond is sketched in sharp yet subtle dramatic strokes that are all the more thrilling for their breathless rapidity.—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026 But this doesn’t explain the rapidity of the shift nor the fact that all the leading American AI research labs moved in the same direction.—Nick Srnicek, Wired News, 14 Jan. 2026 Still others warned of the rapidity with which democracy could give way to dictatorship.—Talya Zax, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025 The film captures the rapidity of time, with flashes of beauty and brutality whipping by in turn.—Anastasia Sanger, Glamour, 22 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rapidity
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borrowed from French & Latin; French rapidité, going back to Middle French, borrowed from Latin rapiditāt-, rapiditās, from rapidus "flowing violently, rapid entry 1" + -itāt-, -itās-ity