Esprit

Noun

 * 1) Spirit, enthusiasm.
 * 2) A wit.
 * 3) Liveliness, or active mind and spirit.

Related terms

 * esprit de corps
 * l'esprit de l'escalier

Thesaurus
Atticism, Vernunft, accord, accordance, acuity, acumen, acuteness, adroitness, affinity, agape, agile wit, agreement, amity, animal spirits, animation, aptitude, aptness, 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, verve, vigor, vim, viscera, visual humor, vitality, vivacity, wit, zest, zestfulness, zing, zip

Etymology
Borrowed from the French.

Pronunciation
/ɛˌspɹiː/

Translations

 * Finnish:, henkevyys


 * German:


 * Finnish: henkevyys,


 * Finnish: henkevyys, eloisuus


 * German:

Anagrams

 * priest
 * ripest
 * sitrep
 * sprite
 * stripe

Noun

 * 1) esprit

Etymology
Borrowed from spiritus:.

Noun

 * 1) spirit, enthusiasm
 * 2) mind

Anagrams

 * pétris, pister, prîtes, tripes