'Sportiveness' definitions:
Definition of 'sportiveness'
From: WordNet
noun
Lively high-spirited playfulness [syn: friskiness, frolicsomeness, sportiveness]
Definition of 'Sportiveness'
From: GCIDE
- Sportive \Sport"ive\ (-[i^]v), a. Tending to, engaged in, or provocative of, sport; gay; frolicsome; playful; merry. [1913 Webster]
- Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court? --Shak. [1913 Webster] -- {Sport"ive*ly}, adv. -- {Sport"ive*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]