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Agility vs Celerity - What's the difference?

agility | celerity |

As nouns the difference between agility and celerity

is that agility is (uncountable) the quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body while celerity is (in literary usage) speed.

agility

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body.
  • (countable) A faculty of being agile in body, mind, or figuratively.

    • celerity

    English

    Noun

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  • (in literary usage) Speed.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick , chapter 48:
    • The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity , were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
  • * 1937 , Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman’s Honeymoon , chapter 11:

    • “My parsnip wine is really extra good this year. Dr Jellyfield always takes a glass when he comes—which isn’t very often, I’m pleased to say, because my health is always remarkably good.”

    “That will not prevent me from drinking to it,” said Peter, disposing of the parsnip wine with a celerity which might have been due to eagerness but, to Harriet, rather suggested a reluctance to let the draught linger on the palate.

  • (oceanography) The speed of individual waves (as opposed to the speed of groups of waves).