spiritedness

  • 111pessimism — I noun blighted hope, cheerlessness, cynicism, dashed hopes, defeatism, dejectedness, dejection, depression, despair, desperation, despondence, despondency, disconsolation, discouragement, disheartenment, dispiritedness, dolefulness, downcastness …

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  • 112Plato: ethics and politics — A.W.Price I Plato followed his teacher Socrates into ethics by way of a question that remained central in Greek thought: what is the relation between the virtues or excellences (aretai) of character, and happiness (eudaimonia)?1 Both concepts… …

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  • 113activity — Synonyms and related words: act, acting, action, actions, activism, activities, acts, actuation, address, affair, affairs, affectation, air, animation, ardor, artificial radioactivity, bag, bearing, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm,… …

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  • 114animal spirits — Synonyms and related words: animate existence, animation, being alive, birth, capersomeness, coltishness, elan, esprit, existence, exuberance, friskiness, frolicsomeness, gaiety, gamesomeness, gayness, gusto, having life, heartiness, immortality …

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  • 115animation — Synonyms and related words: activity, actuation, afflatus, aggravation, agitation, alacrity, animal spirits, animate existence, animating spirit, animus, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, ardency, ardor, arousal, arousing, avidity, avidness, being… …

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  • 116ardor — Synonyms and related words: Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, abandon, acquiescence, activity, admiration, adoration, affection, agape, agreeability, agreeableness, alacrity, allegiance, amenability, anger, animation, application,… …

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  • 117brio — Synonyms and related words: activity, animation, ardor, briskness, dash, elan, enthusiasm, esprit, glow, gusto, impetuosity, impetus, joie de vivre, life, liveliness, lustiness, mettle, oomph, perkiness, pertness, robustness, spirit, spiritedness …

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  • 118dynamism — Synonyms and related words: adventuresomeness, adventurousness, aggression, aggressiveness, ambitiousness, demonic energy, drive, energy, enterprise, enterprisingness, ergal, force, forcefulness, get up and get, get up and go, getup, go, go ahead …

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  • 119eagerness — Synonyms and related words: OK, a thing for, acceptance, accord, acquiescence, affinity, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative voice, agreeability, agreeableness, agreement, alacrity, ambition, amenability, animation, anxiety, appetite,… …

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  • 120effervescence — Synonyms and related words: ado, agitation, animation, assibilation, boiling, breeziness, briskness, brouhaha, bubbliness, bubbling, buoyancy, bustle, buzz, carbonation, commotion, disturbance, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition, eddy,… …

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