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HIGH-SPIRITEDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high-spiritedness mean? 

HIGH-SPIRITEDNESS (noun)
  The noun HIGH-SPIRITEDNESS has 1 sense:

1. exuberant livelinessplay

  Familiarity information: HIGH-SPIRITEDNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HIGH-SPIRITEDNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Exuberant liveliness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("high-spiritedness" is a kind of...):

life; liveliness; spirit; sprightliness (animation and energy in action or expression)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "high-spiritedness"):

vivacity (characterized by high spirits and animation)

mettlesomeness (courageous high-spiritedness)

Derivation:

high-spirited (joyously unrestrained)


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