From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Agility \A*gil"i*ty\, noun [F. agili['e], L. agilitas, fr. agilis.]
1. 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.
They . . . trust to the agility of their wit. --Bacon.
Wheeling with the agility of a hawk. --Sir W. Scott.
2. Activity; powerful agency. [Obs.]
The agility of the sun's fiery heat. --Holland.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble [syn: {legerity}, {lightness}, {lightsomeness}, {nimbleness}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "agility": acuity, acuteness, alacrity, alertness, attention, attentiveness, brightness, briskness, dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness, featliness, keenness, lightness, nimbleness, promptitude, promptness, punctuality, quickness, readiness, sharpness, sleeplessness, smartness, speediness, spryness, swiftness, wakefulness
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