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Webster 1828 Edition
Sportiveness
SPORTIVENESS
,Noun.
1.
Playfulness; mirth; merriment.2.
Disposition to mirth.Definition 2024
sportiveness
sportiveness
English
Noun
sportiveness (usually uncountable, plural sportivenesses)
- the state of being sportive
- 1907, Edited by Rev. James Wood, The Nuttall Encyclopaedia:
- 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.