celerity
/sɪˈlɛrɪti
/noun [mass noun] archaic 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.
Origin
Late 15th century: from Old French celerite, from Latin celeritas, from celer 'swift'.