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English noun: sprightliness

1. sprightliness (attribute) animation and energy in action or expression


SamplesIt was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it.


Synonymslife, liveliness, spirit


Broader (hypernym)animation, brio, invigoration, spiritedness, vivification


Narrower (hyponym)airiness, alacrity, breeziness, briskness, buoyancy, delicacy, ebullience, elan, energy, enthusiasm, esprit, exuberance, ginger, high-spiritedness, irrepressibility, jauntiness, muscularity, pep, peppiness, pertness, smartness, vigor, vigour, vim


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