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Instancy

Instance; urgency.

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Celerity 76% connected

Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness.

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Quickness 76% connected

The condition or quality of being quick or living; life.

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Rapidity 76% connected

The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity of growth or improvem…

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Rapidness 76% connected

Quality of being rapid; rapidity.

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Speediness 76% connected

The quality or state of being speedy.

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Urgency 76% connected

The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.

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Importunity 76% connected

The quality of being importunate; pressing or pertinacious solicitation; urgent request; incessant or frequent application; troublesome pertinacity.

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Instant 74% connected

Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest.

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Instant 74% connected

Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest.

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Immediacy 92% connected

The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness.

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Immediateness 92% connected

The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes.

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Beat noun · 86% connection

a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat"

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Deliberateness noun · 86% connection

a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry

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Deliberation noun · 86% connection

a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry

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Despatch noun · 86% connection

the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch"

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Dilatoriness noun · 86% connection

slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it

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Dispatch noun · 86% connection

the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch"

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Execution speed noun · 86% connection

(computer science) the speed with which a computational device can execute instructions; measured in MIPS

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Expedition noun · 86% connection

the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch"

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Fastness noun · 86% connection

a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens; "the project advanced with gratifying speed"

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Fleetness noun · 86% connection

rapidity of movement; "fleetness of foot"

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Graduality noun · 86% connection

the quality of being gradual or of coming about by gradual stages

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Gradualness noun · 86% connection

the quality of being gradual or of coming about by gradual stages

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Haste noun · 86% connection

overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"

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Hastiness noun · 86% connection

overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"

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Hurry noun · 86% connection

overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"

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Pace noun · 86% connection

the relative speed of progress or change; "he lived at a fast pace"; "he works at a great rate"; "the pace of events accelerated"

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Precipitation noun · 86% connection

overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"

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Procrastination noun · 86% connection

slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it

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Abstract noun · 78% connection

a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance; "he loved her only in the abstract — not in person"

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Affliction noun · 78% connection

The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief.

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Anacoluthon noun · 78% connection

A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter pa…

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As adv. & conj. · 78% connection

For instance; by way of example; thus; -- used to introduce illustrative phrases, sentences, or citations.

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Beseech verb · 78% connection

To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.

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Business deal noun · 78% connection

a particular instance of buying or selling; "it was a package deal"; "I had no further trade with him"; "he's a master of the business…

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Case noun · 78% connection

That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; af…

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Entreat verb · 78% connection

To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate…

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Example verb · 78% connection

To set an example for; to give a precedent for; to exemplify; to give an instance of; to instance.

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Guarantee noun · 78% connection

In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of…

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Hard adverb · 78% connection

With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.

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Heart attack noun · 78% connection

a sudden severe instance of abnormal heart function

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