Celerity
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Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness.Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly to him whose wholeemployment is to watch its flight. Johnson.
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Speed, haste, rapidity or quickness. Gamers often have celeritous reflexes and athletes run celeritously.
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Swiftness of movement.
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a rate that is rapid
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The speed of individual waves (as opposed to the speed of groups of waves).
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Celerity is the quality or state of being swift; rapidity or speed.
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sel-er′it-i, n. quickness: rapidity of motion. [Fr.,—L. celeritas—celer, quick.]
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