Henry Lawson

The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.

Australian Writer

Ellen Key

The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery, a devotion to duty, a sense of honour - habits that adults get out of with astonishing rapidity.

Swedish Writer

Joyce Grenfell

They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.

English Actress

Marianne Williamson

The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle.

American Author

Archibald Hill

One of the fundamental characteristics of striated muscle, and the one involving the greatest difficulty in investigation, is the great rapidity with which changes take place in it.

English Psychologist

Greg Boyle

The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart.

American Clergyman

Hermann von Helmholtz

Now, the external work of man is of the most varied kind as regards the force or ease, the form and rapidity, of the motions used on it, and the kind of work produced.

German Physicist

William Shatner

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.

Canadian Actor

George Henry Lewes

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.

English Philosopher

Charles Babbage

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

English Mathematician

Use 'rapidity' when describing something that happens very quickly, especially changes or actions.

Situational Use

'Rapidity' emphasizes the remarkable speed of an event or action, often exceeding normal expectations.

Emphasis on Speed

'Rapidity' can be applied in various contexts, from physical movements to intellectual processes.

Contextual Variety

 about each of these four is we understand something about the brain circuits that are associated with them and each of these circuits exhibits plasticity. The first is resilience. We define resilience as the rapidity with which you recover from adversity. And it turns out that

The Science of a Happy...

 to pick something up, to form a word or to sit up -- new synaptic connections are being built in the brain. New parents are astonished by the rapidity of this learning. They are quite rightly amazed and delighted by their children's cleverness.