sportiveness

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   lively, high-spirited playfulness or a tendency to frolic

   The puppy's sportiveness delighted the children but exhausted the older dog.

Formed from sportive + -ness. Sportive developed from sport, itself shortened from disport, 'amusement or diversion,' borrowed through Old French. The noun names the playful disposition or energetic behavior characteristic of someone being sportive.

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