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Main Entry: readiness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: skill; eagerness

Synonyms:

address, adroitness, alacrity, aptness, deftness, dexterity, dispatch, ease, eloquence, expedience, expedition, facility, fitness, fluency, good will, handiness, inclination, keenness, maturity, preparation, preparedness, promptitude, promptness, prowess, quickness, rapidity, ripeness, sleight, volubility, willingness

Antonyms:

discouragement, unpreparedness
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Main Entry: readiness
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
bent upon, content, cordial, corrigible, disposed, docile, eager, earnest, easily persuaded, easy, facile, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, favorably minded, forward, genial, gracious, gratuitous, hearty, in the humor, in the mind, in the mood, in the vein, inclined, minded, nothing loth, persuadable, persuasible, predisposed, propense, ready, spontaneous, suasible, tractable, unasked, unforced, voluntary, willing
Main Entry: alacrity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: liveliness; promptness

Synonyms:

alertness, avidity, briskness, cheerfulness, dispatch, eagerness, enthusiasm, expedition, fervor, gaiety, hilarity, joyousness, promptitude, quickness, readiness, speed, sprightliness, willingness, zeal

Antonyms:

apathy, aversion, disinclination, dullness, indifference, reluctance, slowness, unwillingness
Main Entry: capacity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ability; competency

Synonyms:

adequacy, aptitude, aptness, bent, brains, caliber, capability, cleverness, compass, competence, efficiency, facility, faculty, forte, genius, gift, inclination, intelligence, knack, might, power, qualification, readiness, skill, stature, strength, talent, the goods, up to it, what it takes
Notes: applied to a person, ability and capacity mean about the same thing but are grammatically different: an ability to do something, a capacity for doing something; ability is qualitative while capacity is quantitative
capacity refers to a general ability to comprehend an issue or perform a task; capability implies a reference to one of a set of such abilities

Antonyms:

impotence, inability, incompetence
Main Entry: dexterity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: aptitude, ability

Synonyms:

address, adroitness, aptness, art, artistry, cleverness, craft, cunning, deftness, effortlessness, expertise, expertness, facility, finesse, handiness, ingenuity, knack, know-how, mastery, neatness, nimbleness, proficiency, readiness, skill, skillfulness, smoothness, tact, touch

Antonyms:

awkwardness, clumsiness, inability, ineptness
Main Entry: disposition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: personal temperament

Synonyms:

bag*, being, bent, bias, cast, character, complexion, constitution, cup of tea, druthers, emotions, flash, frame of mind, groove*, habit, humor, identity, inclination, individualism, individuality, leaning, make-up, mind-set, mood, nature, penchant, personality, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, readiness, spirit, stamp, temper, tendency, tenor, thing*, tone, type, vein
Main Entry: ease
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: facility, freedom

Synonyms:

adroitness, affability, aplomb, breeze, child's play, cinch, cleverness, composure, dexterity, dispatch, duck soup, easygoingness, efficiency, effortlessness, expertise, expertness, familiarity, flexibility, fluency, informality, insouciance, knack, liberty, naturalness, nonchalance, poise, pushover, quickness, readiness, relaxedness, setup, simplicity, skillfulness, smooth sailing, smoothness, snap, unaffectedness, unconstraint, unreservedness

Antonyms:

difficulty, effort, inhibition, perplexity, restriction
Main Entry: efficiency
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: adeptness, effectiveness

Synonyms:

ability, abundance, adaptability, address, adequacy, capability, capableness, competence, competency, completeness, economy, effectualness, efficacy, energy, expertise, facility, faculty, know-how, performance, potency, power, powerfulness, productiveness, productivity, proficiency, prowess, quantity, readiness, resourcefulness, response, skill, skillfulness, suitability, suitableness, talent, thoroughness

Antonyms:

helplessness, impotence, inability, incompetence, ineffectiveness, inefficiency, weakness
Main Entry: enterprise
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: resourcefulness, energy

Synonyms:

activity, adventurousness, alertness, ambition, audacity, boldness, courage, daring, dash, drive, eagerness, enthusiasm, force, foresight, get-up-and-go, gumption, hustle, industry, initiative, inventiveness, pluck, push, readiness, resource, self-reliance, spirit, venturesomeness, vigor, zeal

Antonyms:

apathy, idleness, indolence, passiveness, passivity
Main Entry: expedition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: speed; speeding up

Synonyms:

alacrity, celerity, dispatch, expeditiousness, goodwill, haste, hurry, hustle, promptitude, promptness, punctuality, quickness, rapidity, readiness, swiftness

Antonyms:

blockage, delay, halt, hindrance, slowing, stoppage
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