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fastness
 
Noun fastness has 3 senses
  1. speed, swiftness, fastness - a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens; "the project advanced with gratifying speed"
    --1 is a kind of pace, rate
    --1 has particulars:
     haste, hastiness, hurry, hurriedness, precipitation; acceleration; deceleration, slowing, retardation; execution speed; graduality, gradualness
  2. fastness, fixedness, fixity, fixture, secureness - the quality of being fixed in place
    --2 is a kind of immovability, immovableness
    --2 has particulars: lodgment, lodgement, lodging
  3. stronghold, fastness - a strongly fortified defensive structure
    --3 is a kind of defensive structure, defense, defence
    --3 has particulars:
     bastion, citadel; blockhouse; hold; keep, donjon, dungeon; redoubt, sconce
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