'ESPRIT' definitions:
Definition of 'esprit'
(from WordNet)
noun
Liveliness of mind or spirit
Definition of 'Esprit'
From: GCIDE
- Esprit \Es`prit"\, n. [F. See Spirit.] Spirit. [1913 Webster]
- Esprit de corps, a French phrase much used by English writers to denote the common spirit pervading the members of a body or association of persons. It implies sympathy, enthusiasm, devotion, and jealous regard for the honor of the body as a whole. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'esprit'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accord,
- accordance,
- acuity,
- acumen,
- acuteness,
- adroitness,
- affinity,
- agape,
- agile wit,
- agreement,
- amity,
- animal spirits,
- animation,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- Atticism,
- being,
- bipartisanship,
- black humor,
- bonds of harmony,
- bones,
- bosom,
- brain,
- braininess,
- brains,
- breast,
- brightness,
- brilliance,
- brio,
- brotherly love,
- burlesque,
- camaraderie,
- capersomeness,
- caricature,
- caritas,
- cement of friendship,
- charity,
- clear thinking,
- cleverness,
- coaction,
- coadjuvancy,
- coadministration,
- coagency,
- cochairmanship,
- codirectorship,
- collaboration,
- collaborativeness,
- collectivism,
- collusion,
- coltishness,
- comedy,
- commensalism,
- common effort,
- common enterprise,
- communalism,
- communion,
- communism,
- communitarianism,
- community,
- community of interests,
- compatibility,
- complicity,
- conception,
- concert,
- concord,
- concordance,
- concurrence,
- congeniality,
- cooperation,
- cooperativeness,
- correspondence,
- courage,
- dash,
- devotion,
- dexterity,
- discourse of reason,
- discursive reason,
- dry wit,
- duet,
- duumvirate,
- ecumenicalism,
- ecumenicism,
- ecumenism,
- elan,
- empathy,
- enthusiasm,
- esprit de corps,
- exuberance,
- farce,
- feeling of identity,
- fellow feeling,
- fellowship,
- fervor,
- flair,
- frictionlessness,
- friskiness,
- frolicsomeness,
- gaiety,
- gamesomeness,
- gayness,
- genius,
- giftedness,
- gifts,
- good vibes,
- good vibrations,
- gray matter,
- gusto,
- guts,
- happy family,
- harmony,
- head,
- headpiece,
- heart,
- heart of hearts,
- heartiness,
- heartstrings,
- humor,
- identity,
- inmost heart,
- inmost soul,
- innermost being,
- intellect,
- intellection,
- intellectual faculty,
- intelligence,
- irony,
- joining of forces,
- joint effort,
- joint operation,
- keen-wittedness,
- keenness,
- kinship,
- lampoon,
- life,
- like-mindedness,
- liveliness,
- love,
- loyalty,
- mass action,
- mens,
- mental alertness,
- mental capacity,
- mentality,
- mercurial mind,
- mettle,
- mind,
- morale,
- mutual assistance,
- mutualism,
- mutuality,
- native cleverness,
- nimble mind,
- nimble wit,
- nimble-wittedness,
- nimbleness,
- nous,
- octet,
- oneness,
- oomph,
- parody,
- passion,
- peace,
- piss and vinegar,
- playfulness,
- pleasantry,
- pooling,
- pooling of resources,
- power of reason,
- pretty wit,
- psyche,
- pulling together,
- quartet,
- quick parts,
- quick thinking,
- quick wit,
- quick-wittedness,
- quickness,
- quintet,
- rapport,
- rapprochement,
- ratio,
- rationality,
- ready wit,
- reason,
- reasoning,
- reasoning faculty,
- reciprocity,
- rollicksomeness,
- rompishness,
- salt,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- savor of wit,
- savvy,
- secret places,
- septet,
- sextet,
- sharing,
- sharp-wittedness,
- sharpness,
- skittishness,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- smartness,
- smarts,
- solidarity,
- soul,
- spirit,
- spiritedness,
- spirits,
- sportiveness,
- sprightliness,
- sprightly wit,
- squib,
- subtle wit,
- symbiosis,
- sympathy,
- symphony,
- synergism,
- synergy,
- talent,
- team spirit,
- teamwork,
- tenacity,
- travesty,
- trio,
- triumvirate,
- troika,
- understanding,
- union,
- unison,
- united action,
- unity,
- Vernunft,
- verve,
- vigor,
- vim,
- viscera,
- visual humor,
- vitality,
- vivacity,
- wit,
- zest,
- zestfulness,
- zing,
- zip
Acronyms for 'esprit'
From: V.E.R.A.
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