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Lively high-spirited playfulness
Answer for the clue "Lively high-spirited playfulness ", 12 letters:
sportiveness
Word definitions for sportiveness in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the state of being sportive
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sportive \Sport"ive\ (-[i^]v), a. Tending to, engaged in, or provocative of, sport; gay; frolicsome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court? --Shak. [1913 Webster] -- Sport"ive*ly , adv. -- Sport"ive*ness , n.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. lively high-spirited playfulness [syn: friskiness , frolicsomeness ]
Usage examples of sportiveness.
He had his hands on his hips and was quietly chuckling at the scene before him, as one who, although old, sympathized with the natural and harmless sportiveness of young people and would as lief as not join in a prank or two.
You are always diverting, and if your sportiveness leads you now and then to say some odd things I fancy I am too well-acquainted with you to believe you mean them.