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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--legerity legerity (luh-JER-i-tee) noun Nimbleness; agility. [From French légèreté, from léger (light), from Vulgar Latin leviarius, from Latin levis (light).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. "I began to follow at the same rate, but immediately slackened speed for fear that Watts-Dunton behind us might be embittered at sight of so much youth and legerity." Henry Maximilian Beerbohm; No. 2 The Pines; 1914. This week's theme: miscellaneous words. X-Bonus It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy. -George H. Lorimer, editor (1868-1937)

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