Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Quickness or agility of mind or body.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Lightness; nimbleness.
Wiktionary
- n. alert quickness of mind or body
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Lightness; nimbleness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble
Etymologies
- French légèreté, from Old French legerete, from leger, light; see legerdemain.
Examples
“But then again, the plethora of insane details does contribute to my mind's general legerity, allowing me to often win at trivia game variants (until my intellectual bully of a wife comes along with a smile and beats me within an inch of my life - in the very same categories I'm supposed to have "mastered", and then some).”
“Hence, it would be an unpardonable legerity to close our eyes to the dangers lurking beneath an apparent passivity.”
“Alighting with the legerity of a cat, he swerved leftward in the recoil, and was off, like a streak of mulberry-coloured lightning, down the High.”
“Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages. ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘legerity’.
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televisionarie's list
Way too pretentious.
limerance, scansion, legerity, tumescence, peripatetic, milieu, sangfroid, solipsistic, apanthropy
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