What does sportiveness mean?
Sportiveness means the state of being sportive.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
the state of being sportive.
You will see the tame horse in the paddock gallop about for his pleasure, and the wild horse on the prairie will start and run for miles in mere sportiveness.
Then he would play with his vixen, she encouraging him with her pretty sportiveness.
OMAR KHAYYAM, astronomer-poet of Persia, born at Naishapur, in Khorassan; lived in the later half of the 11th century, and died in the first quarter of the 12th; wrote a collection of poems which breathe an Epicurean spirit, and while they occupy themselves with serious problems of life, do so with careless sportiveness, intent he on the enjoyment of the sensuous pleasures of life, like an easy-going Epicurean.
Use sportiveness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sportiveness means the state of being sportive.
Common synonyms include friskiness, frolicsomeness.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
You will see the tame horse in the paddock gallop about for his pleasure, and the wild horse on the prairie will start and run for miles in mere sportiveness.
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