Definition of celerity in English:
nounarchaic or literary
Swiftness of movement.
- An individual's crime calculus is influenced by three factors: certainty, severity, and celerity of punishment.
- Nowhere does fear do its work with more celerity and less constraint than in the financial markets, which often flee even from their own shadows.
- Coerced abstinence reflects a shift in emphasis from the severity of potential sanctions for continued drug use to a focus on the certainty and celerity of consequences of use as the primary mechanism for changing offender behavior.
Words that rhyme with celerityambidexterity, asperity, austerity, dexterity, ferrety, posterity, prosperity, severity, sincerity, temerity, verity
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