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sprightliness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sprightliness has 1 sense
- sprightliness(n = noun.attribute) life, liveliness, spirit - animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it" is a kind of animation, brio, invigoration, spiritedness, vivification
has particulars: pertness, airiness, delicacy, alacrity, briskness, smartness, energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim, elan, esprit, breeziness, jauntiness, buoyancy, irrepressibility, high-spiritedness, ebullience, enthusiasm, exuberance, ginger, pep, peppiness
Derived form adjective sprightly1
CIDE DICTIONARY
sprightliness, n.
The quality or state of being sprightly; liveliness; life; briskness; vigor; activity; gayety; vivacity. [1913 Webster]
"In dreams, observe with what a sprightliness and alacrity does she [the soul] exert herself!"
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