"alacrity" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /əˈlækɹɨti/ [UK, US] Audio: en-us-alacrity.ogg Forms: alacrities [plural]
enPR: ə-lă'crĭ-tē [UK, US] Etymology: Mid-15th century; from Middle English alacrite, from Latin alacritās, from alacer (“brisk”) + -itās (“-ity”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|alacrite}} Middle English alacrite, {{der|en|la|alacritās}} Latin alacritās Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} alacrity (countable and uncountable, plural alacrities)
  1. Eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: avidity, eagerness, enthusiasm, willingness Translations (eagerness): պատրաստակամություն (patrastakamutʻyun) (Armenian), աշխուժություն (ašxužutʻyun) (Armenian), готовност (gotovnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), усърдие (usǎrdie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), čilost [feminine] (Czech), bereidwilligheid [feminine] (Dutch), into (Finnish), alacrité [feminine] (French), empressement [masculine] (French), alacridade [feminine] (Galician), Eifer [masculine] (German), alacritate (Interlingua), alacrità [feminine] (Italian), solerzia [feminine] (Italian), alacritās [feminine] (Latin), arryltid [masculine] (Manx), arryltys [masculine] (Manx), laueys [masculine] (Manx), iver [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), entusiasme [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), skwapliwość [feminine] (Polish), alacridade [feminine] (Portuguese), alegria [feminine] (Portuguese), ânimo [masculine] (Portuguese), гото́вность (gotóvnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), жи́вость (žívostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), рве́ние (rvénije) [neuter] (Russian), sunnd [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), sùrd [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), esmero [masculine] (Spanish), alacridad [feminine] (Spanish), ஆர்வம் (ārvam) (Tamil)
    Sense id: en-alacrity-en-noun-wD3DH0N6 Disambiguation of 'eagerness': 99 1
  2. Promptness; speed. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: briskness, celerity, haste, promptness, quickness, swiftness Translations (promptness): живост (živost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), пъргавост (pǎrgavost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), hbitost [feminine] (Czech), vlugheid [feminine] (Dutch), ripeys (Finnish), rapidité [feminine] (French), alacridade [feminine] (Galician), Unverzüglichkeit [feminine] (German), расторо́пность (rastorópnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), прово́рство (provórstvo) [neuter] (Russian), sgiobaltachd [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), alacridad [feminine] (Spanish), presteza [feminine] (Spanish), prontitud [feminine] (Spanish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: alacritous, alacritously Related terms: alacrify, allegretto, allegro

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:",
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          "lang": "Armenian",
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          "ref": "1848 (date delivered; published 1849), Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “[Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers.] Civil Disobedience.”, in A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1866, →OCLC, page 124:",
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          "text": "Not just that, but if the inlet of a turbopump impeller runs dry, it would overspeed with blinding alacrity.",
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    "Terms with French translations",
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    "Terms with German translations",
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          "ref": "1922, Edith Wharton, chapter 24, in The Glimpses of the Moon:",
          "text": "This evening, however, he was struck by the beaming alacrity of the aide-de-camp's greeting.",
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          "word": "avidity"
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          "word": "willingness"
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          "ref": "1848 (date delivered; published 1849), Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “[Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers.] Civil Disobedience.”, in A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1866, →OCLC, page 124:",
          "text": "Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. […] Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.",
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          "ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 205, column 2:",
          "text": "He had a uniform jacket with one button off, and seeing a white man on the path, hoisted his weapon to his shoulder with alacrity.",
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          "ref": "2019, Tristan, Stack Exchange:",
          "text": "Not just that, but if the inlet of a turbopump impeller runs dry, it would overspeed with blinding alacrity.",
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      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "patrastakamutʻyun",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "word": "պատրաստակամություն"
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      "sense": "eagerness",
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      "word": "готовност"
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      "sense": "eagerness",
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      "word": "усърдие"
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      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "čilost"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "bereidwilligheid"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "word": "into"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alacrité"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "empressement"
    },
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alacridade"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "Eifer"
    },
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      "code": "ia",
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "word": "alacritate"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alacrità"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "solerzia"
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      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "alacritās"
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      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "arryltid"
    },
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      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "arryltys"
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      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "laueys"
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "iver"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "entusiasme"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "skwapliwość"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alacridade"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alegria"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ânimo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gotóvnostʹ",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гото́вность"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "žívostʹ",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "жи́вость"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rvénije",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "рве́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sunnd"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sùrd"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "esmero"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alacridad"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "ārvam",
      "sense": "eagerness",
      "word": "ஆர்வம்"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "živost",
      "sense": "promptness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "живост"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pǎrgavost",
      "sense": "promptness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "пъргавост"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "promptness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hbitost"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "promptness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vlugheid"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "promptness",
      "word": "ripeys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "promptness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rapidité"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "promptness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alacridade"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "promptness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Unverzüglichkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rastorópnostʹ",
      "sense": "promptness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "расторо́пность"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "provórstvo",
      "sense": "promptness",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "прово́рство"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "promptness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sgiobaltachd"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "promptness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alacridad"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "promptness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "presteza"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "promptness",
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      "word": "prontitud"
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  "word": "alacrity"
}

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