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alacrity

noun as in liveliness

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Since then, rapid prototyping, flexible and evolving solutions, and the need for development alacrity have become vital for enterprises.

Sources worry that Schumer is expressing rhetorical support for the measure but isn’t advocating for its passage with his signature alacrity.

From TIme

What the business affairs team has done for film and television — I think we did more deals this past year than we did in the last two years alone — speaks to a lot of our alacrity in approaching what is a very fast-moving industry.

From Digiday

Down under, people endearingly call boxes of wine “goons,” and they drink them with alacrity.

When it comes to nuns, though, the church is somehow able to act with alacrity.

"Capital, capital," his lordship would remark with great alacrity, when there was no other way of escape.

Anselme, thus enjoined, lent an unwonted alacrity to his movements, waddling grotesquely like a hastening waterfowl.

Bernard, professing great alacrity, looked about him; but he still lingered near his companions.

This result comes only to those who carry out all the directions with genuine alacrity—not shirking one of them.

The quadroon was following them with little quick steps, having assumed a fictitious animation and alacrity for the occasion.

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On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to alacrity, such as: avidity, cheerfulness, dispatch, eagerness, enthusiasm, and expedition.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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