Alacrity

n.

1.

A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy. I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. - Shak.

Noun

1.

alacrity - liveliness and eagerness; "he accepted with alacrity" Synonyms: briskness

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

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