celerity

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The Word of the Day for October 12 is:

celerity   \suh-LAIR-uh-tee\   noun
     : rapidity of motion or action

Example sentence: 
     Sarah's employees appreciate the celerity with which she responds to 
queries and deals with problems.

Did you know? 
         In the novel _Of Human Bondage_, W. Somerset Maugham tells of an 
undertaker's shop window that displays the words "Economy, Celerity, Propriety" 
in "silver lettering on a black cloth . . . with two model coffins." But 
"celerity" isn't dead in English, where it has proven its vitality since the 
Middle Ages. Middle English speakers borrowed "celerite" from Anglo-French (and 
speedily changed it to "celerity"). The word is ultimately from Latin "celer," 
which means "swift." Another "celer" word in English is "accelerate."