Sprightliness

Definition: Sprightliness

Sprightliness

Noun

1. Animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it".

Date "sprightliness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Sprightliness

Synonyms: life (n), liveliness (n), spirit (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Sprightliness

English words defined with "sprightliness": Crankness ♦ Spritely, suspended animation ♦ To muster up. (references)

Etymologies containing "sprightliness": Gog. (references)

"Sprightliness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sprightliness" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

Language		Translations for "sprightliness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		gjallëri (activity, alacrity, alertness, animation, brio, briskness, dynamism, ebullience, ebulliency, effervescence, effervescency, friskiness, ginger, life, liveliness, lustiness, mercuriality, pep, pepper, verdure, verve, vitality, vivacity, volatility, zest). (various references)

Arabic		‏حيوية (activity, animation, dash, drive, elan, energy, ginger, life, liveliness, pep, sparkle, spirit, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, vitality, vivacity, youthfulness, zest, zing, zip). (various references)

Bulgarian		веселост (boisterousness, conviviality, gaiety, gladness, hilarity, jocundity, jollity, joviality, pleasantness, pleasantry, sparkle), живост (activity, agility, alertness, brio, esprit, ginger, jazz, liveliness, mercuriality, mobility, nervousness, pep, punch, snap, spunk, vinegar, vitality, vivacity, vividness, volatility, zap). (various references)

German		lebhaftigkeit (animation, breeziness, briskness, liveliness, mercurialness, mobility, sanguineness, vivaciousness, vivacity, vividness). (various references)

Greek		ζωηρότησ (briskness, buoyancy, crispness, friskiness, gayness, jauntiness, liveliness, luridness, pep, peppiness, perkiness, raciness, rompishness, snappiness, spiciness, spiritedness, spryness, verve, vibrancy, vivaciousness, vivacity, vividness), ζωηρότητα (activeness, animation, briskness, buoyancy, crispness, friskiness, gayness, jauntiness, liveliness, luridness, raciness, rompishness, snappiness, spiciness, spiritedness, spryness, verve, vibrancy, vivaciousness, vivacity, vivccity, vividness). (various references)

Hebrew		עסיסיות (fruitiness, juciness, meatiness, succulence, vivacity). (various references)

Hungarian		élénkség (animation, dash, exhilaration, friskiness, gaiety, ginger, go, liveliness, mercuriality, movement, pep, quickness, snap, vivacity). (various references)

Italian		vivacit� (animation, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, briskness, jauntiness, liveliness, quickness, sharpness, skittishness, sparkle, vivacity, vividness). (various references)

Manx		gastid (agility, cleverness, physical activity), annymoilid (boisterousness, liveliness, spirit, vivacity). (various references)

Pig Latin		ightlinessspray

Romanian		vioiciune (alacrity, alertness, briskness, buoyancy, fizz, fling, go, hoity toity, jazz, life, liveliness, perkiness, pertness, quickness, snap, vivacity), viaţã (alacrity, animation, being, biography, career, cheerfulness, day, existence, life, living, pepper, reality, spirit, vitality). (various references)

Russian		оживленность (ginger, vivaciousness, vivacity). (various references)

Turkish		neşe (brightness, buoyancy, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, esprit, exhilaration, frolic, gaiety, glee, hilarity, humor, humour, jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joy, merriment, mirth, pleasantry, raciness, rejoicing, spirit, sunshine, vivacity), canlılık (alacrity, animation, bounce, brightness, brio, buoyancy, color, colour, crispness, dynamics, elan, exhilaration, friskiness, ginger, life, liveliness, lustiness, perkiness, quickness, raciness, richness, saturation, spiritedness, stamina, stir, verve, vivacity, vividness). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự vui vẻ tính hoạt bát, tính nhanh nhảu (vivaciousness, vivacity). (various references)

Welsh		hoywdeb, hoenusrwydd (liveliness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sprightliness": sprightlinesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "sprightliness" (pronounced 'Spright"li*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-i-l-n-p-r-s-s-s-t"
	-2 letters: girlishness, gristliness, sightliness, spinsterish.
	-3 letters: grisliness, persisting, philtering, singspiels, slightness, slithering, spiritless, springiest, stringless, striplings.
	-4 letters: grisliest, hirelings, hirseling, insisters, lightness, nephritis, nightless, penlights, perishing, philtring, pithiness, plighters, pressings, priesting, printless, prissiest, relishing, relisting, resisting, respiting, rieslings, rightness, shielings, shinglers, shirtings, shirtless, sightless, sightlier, singspiel, sistering, spinsters, splinters, sterlings, stingless, stressing, stripings, stripling.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-i-l-n-p-r-s-s-s-t"
	+2 letters: sprightlinesses.
	+5 letters: neurophysiologists.
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Sprightliness

Definition: Sprightliness

Sprightliness

Noun

Synonyms: Sprightliness

Crosswords: Sprightliness

Usage Frequency: Sprightliness

Modern Translation: Sprightliness

Albanian

Arabic

Bulgarian

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Italian

Manx

Pig Latin

Romanian

Russian

Turkish

Vietnamese

Welsh

Derivations: Sprightliness

Derivations

Rhyming with "Sprightliness"

Anagrams: Sprightliness

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