Genial vs Alacrity - What's the difference?
genial | alacrity |
friendly and cheerful
(especially of weather) pleasantly mild and warm
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, The well breath'd youth, hot-mettled, and flush with genial juices, was now fairly in for making me know my driver. }}
marked by genius
* 2003 , Laura Fermi, Gilberto Bernardini, Galileo and the Scientific Revolution , Courier Dover Publications, page 111 [http://books.google.com/books?id=qGsZ4YmjhFwC&pg=PA111&dq=genial+idea+date:1940-2009&lr=lang_en&as_brr=3&as_pt=ALLTYPES]:
(anatomy) genian; relating to the chin
Eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm.
* 1837 , , The Pickwick Papers , ch. 12:
* 1922 , , The Glimpses of the Moon , ch. 24:
Promptness; speed.
* 1849 , , "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience":
* 1902 , , Heart of Darkness , Part 1:
As an adjective genial
is great, fantastic.As a noun alacrity is
eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm.genial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- About fifty years later, in 1675, the Danish astronomer Ole Roemer (1644-1710) had the genial idea of using astronomical rather than terrestrial distances.
Derived terms
* congenialAnagrams
* ----alacrity
English
Noun
(alacrities)- "I'll get into the clothes this minute, if they're here," said Sam, with great alacrity .
- This evening, however, he was struck by the beaming alacrity of the aide-de-camp's greeting.
- Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
- 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 .