Alacrity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Alacrity \A*lac"ri*ty\, n. [L. alacritas, fr. alacer lively,
     eager, prob. akin to Gr. ? to drive, Goth. aljan zeal.]
     A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous
     activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced
     with alacrity to meet the enemy.
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           I have not that alacrity of spirit,
           Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  alacrity
       n : liveliness and eagerness; "he accepted with alacrity" [syn:
           {briskness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "alacrity":
     abruptness, acquiescence, agility, agreeability, agreeableness,
     amenability, animation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, ardor,
     avidity, avidness, breathless impatience, briskness,
     cheerful consent, cheerful readiness, compliance, consent,
     cooperativeness, decisiveness, dispatch, docility, eagerness, elan,
     enthusiasm, expedition, expeditiousness, favorable disposition,
     favorableness, fervor, feverishness, forwardness, furiousness,
     gameness, goodwill, gust, gusto, hastiness, heartiness,
     hurriedness, immediacy, immediateness, impatience, impetuosity,
     impetuousness, impulsiveness, instantaneousness, keen desire,
     keenness, life, liveliness, nimbleness, pliability, pliancy,
     precipitance, precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness,
     promptitude, promptness, punctuality, punctualness, quickness,
     rapidity, rashness, readiness, receptive mood, receptiveness,
     receptivity, responsiveness, right mood, sharpness, smartness,
     speed, speediness, spirit, spryness, suddenness, summariness,
     swiftness, tractability, ungrudgingness, unloathness, unreluctance,
     verve, vitality, vivacity, willing ear, willing heart, willingness,
     zeal, zealousness, zest, zestfulness