SPORTIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sportiveness mean? 

• SPORTIVENESS (noun)
  The noun SPORTIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. lively high-spirited playfulness

  Familiarity information: SPORTIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPORTIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lively high-spirited playfulness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

friskiness; frolicsomeness; sportiveness

Hypernyms ("sportiveness" is a kind of...):

fun; playfulness (a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement)

Derivation:

sportive (given to merry frolicking)

 Context examples 

At this time a slight sleep relieved me from the pain of reflection, which was disturbed by the approach of a beautiful child, who came running into the recess I had chosen, with all the sportiveness of infancy.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)