Agility is the gift of moving quickly and changing direction like a cat. Not raw speed — control at speed.
Sport measures it with drills that involve stopping and turning, since agility is what separates a good winger from a fast one. Dog training has agility as a competitive event with tunnels and jumps. The word has a strong business use now, and organisational agility means being able to change direction quickly, which is also where the software methodology takes its name. The adjective is agile.
1nounagilityThe ability to move quickly and change direction easily.
“He kept his agility well into his fifties.”
2nounorganisationThe ability of an organisation to adapt quickly.
“The firm prides itself on its agility.”
Latin
agilitās
Middle French
agilité
English, today
agility
Built from
From late Middle English -, borrowed from Middle French agilité, from Latin agilitās, from agilis (“nimble, fleet, quick”), equivalent to agile + ity.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA