celerity |səˈleritē| noun archaic or literary swiftness of movement.ORIGIN late 15th cent.: from Old French celerite, from Latin celeritas, from celer ‘swift.’
Sometimes I wonder how and why word usage changes. I can understand "landau" going out of fashion, but what was wrong with "celerity"? Aside from sounding like a root vegetable.
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