Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state or quality of being agile; nimbleness.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or quality of being agile; the power of moving quickly; nimbleness; briskness; activity, either of body or of mind.
- n. Powerful action; active force.
- n. Synonyms See agile.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable 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.
- n. countable A faculty of being agile in body, mind, or figuratively.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion.
- n. obsolete Activity; powerful agency.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble
Etymologies
- From Middle French agilité, from Latin agilitās, from agilis ("nimble, fleet, quick"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English agilite, from Old French, from Medieval Latin agilitās, from Latin agilis; see agile. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“People conflate two different things under the term agility: engineering resource availability, and business response to changing conditions or opportunity.”
“Kennard, an honor student, said he was being cleared Tuesday to begin agility drills.”
“Almost any sport that requires quickness and agility is dominated by black players.”
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“Successful, enduring businesses recognize that agility is possible without deviating from core values and core competencies.”
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