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spritefulness

spritefulness is the obsolete form of sprightfulness.

Meaning of sprightfulness

Noun

sprightfulness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being sprightful

Origin of spritefulness

From spriteful + -ness.

Questions about spritefulness

What is spritefulness the obsolete form of?
Spritefulness is the obsolete form of sprightfulness.

Words near spritefulness in the dictionary

  1. sprite haloes
  2. sprite halos
  3. sprited
  4. spriteful
  5. spritefully
  6. spritefulness
  7. spritehood
  8. spritelier
  9. spriteliest
  10. spritelike
  11. spriteliness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spritefulness (page history and authors); sprightfulness (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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