Celerity vs Readiness - What's the difference?
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(in literary usage) Speed.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick , chapter 48:
* 1937 , Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman’s Honeymoon , chapter 11:
(oceanography) The speed of individual waves (as opposed to the speed of groups of waves).
The state or degree of being ready.
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Celerity is a related term of readiness.
As nouns the difference between celerity and readiness
is that celerity is (in literary usage) speed while readiness is the state or degree of being ready.celerity
English
Noun
(-)- 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.
“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.