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sportiveness

sportiveness noun: the state of being sportive.

Noun

sportiveness (usually uncountable, plural sportivenesses)

  1. (usually) 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.1890, Theo. Stephenson Browne, In the Riding-School; Chats With Esmeralda
    • Then he would play with his vixen, she encouraging him with her pretty sportiveness.1922, David Garnett, Lady Into Fox

sportiveness meaning in Tamil

sportiveness in Tamil

விளையாட்டுப் பண்பு

Forms of sportiveness

pluralsportivenesses

Origin of sportiveness

From sportive + -ness.

Questions about sportiveness

What does sportiveness mean?
Sportiveness means the state of being sportive.
What is sportiveness in Tamil?
Sportiveness in Tamil is விளையாட்டுப் பண்பு. See Sportiveness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sportiveness?
Sportiveness is a noun.
What is the plural of sportiveness?
The plural of sportiveness is sportivenesses.

Words near sportiveness in the dictionary

  1. sportish
  2. sportive
  3. sportive lemur
  4. sportive lemurs
  5. sportively
  6. sportiveness
  7. sportivenesses
  8. sportives
  9. sportivity
  10. sportjacket
  11. sportjacketed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sportiveness (page history and authors); sportiveness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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