Word Meanings - AGILITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body. They . . . trust to the agility of their wit. Bacon. Wheeling with the agility of a hawk.

Additional info about word: AGILITY

1. The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body. They . . . trust to the agility of their wit. Bacon. Wheeling with the agility of a hawk. Sir W. Scott. 2. Activity; powerful agency. The agility of the sun's fiery heat. Holland.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AGILITY)

• Activity
• Agility
• quickness
• energy
• briskness
• vivacity
• promptness
• alertness
• celerity
• rapidity

Related words: (words related to AGILITY)

• AGILITY
  1. The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body. They . . . trust to the agility of their wit. Bacon. Wheeling with the agility of a hawk.
• ACTIVITY
  The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey. Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness.
• QUICKNESS
  1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert. 2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit. This deed . . . must send thee hence With
• RAPIDITY
  The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of growth or improvement. Syn. -- -- Rapidness; haste; speed; celerity; velocity; swiftness; fleetness; quickness; agility.
• ENERGY
  Capacity for performing work. Note: The kinetic energy of a body is the energy it has in virtue of being in motion. It is measured by one half of the product of the mass of each element of the body multiplied by the square of the velocity of the
• PROMPTNESS
  1. Promptitude; readiness; quickness of decision or action. 2. Cheerful willingness; alacrity.
• CELERITY
  Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness. Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight. Johnson.
• VIVACITY
  The quality or state of being vivacious. Specifically: -- Tenacity of life; vital force; natural vigor. The vivacity of some of these pensioners is little less than a miracle, they lived so long. Fuller. Life; animation; spiritedness; liveliness;
• BRISKNESS
  Liveliness; vigor in action; quickness; gayety; vivacity; effervescence.
• ALERTNESS
  The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.
• FRAGILITY
  1. The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility. Bacon. 2. Weakness; feebleness. An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to it . Burke. 3. Liability to error and sin; frailty. The fragility
• SELF-ACTIVITY
  The quality or state of being self-active; self-action.
• ATTRACTIVITY
  The quality or degree of attractive power.
• COACTIVITY
  Unity of action.
• TELENERGY
  Display of force or energy at a distance, or without contact; - - applied to mediumistic phenomena. -- Tel`en*er"gic , a.
• INACTIVITY
  1. The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the inactivity of matter. 2. Idleness; habitual indisposition to action or exertion; want of energy; sluggishness. The gloomy inactivity of despair. Cook.