Haste vs. Swiftness

Speed; swiftness; dispatch.

Example: ‘We were running late so we finished our meal in haste.’;

(obsolete) Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.

To urge onward; to hasten.

To move with haste.

Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; - applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.

Example: ‘The king's business required haste.’;

The state of being urged or pressed by business; hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.

Example: ‘I said in my haste, All men are liars.’;

To hasten; to hurry.

Example: ‘I 'll haste the writer.’; ‘They were troubled and hasted away.’;

overly eager speed (and possible carelessness);

Example: ‘he soon regretted his haste’;

the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner;

Example: ‘in his haste to leave he forgot his book’;

a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry;

Example: ‘in a hurry to lock the door’;

excessive speed or urgency of movement or action; hurry

Example: ‘working with feverish haste’; ‘I write in haste’;

archaic term for hasten

The state of being swift.

The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.

a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens;

Example: ‘the project advanced with gratifying speed’;