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Speed with elegance — the swiftness of someone who never looks rushed.
means Swiftness of movement or action — doing something fast, often strikingly so.
from From Latin celeritas, meaning 'speed' or 'quickness,' rooted in the adjective celer, 'swift.' That same Latin root gave English 'accelerate.' The word entered English through French in the late medieval period, carrying from the start a slightly formal, literary air — it was never really street slang for 'fast,' but the word you reached for when swiftness deserved a touch of ceremony.
- origin
- from latin celer, meaning swift
- shakespeare used it
- appears in antony and cleopatra and macbeth
- register
- formal cousin of speed, not velocity
- vibe
- implies grace, not just haste