"sportiveness" meaning in English

See sportiveness in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: sportivenesses [plural]
Etymology: sportive + -ness Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sportive|ness}} sportive + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} sportiveness (usually uncountable, plural sportivenesses)
  1. the state of being sportive Tags: uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-sportiveness-en-noun-mlB-UyQw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for sportiveness meaning in English (1.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sportive",
        "3": "ness"
      },
      "expansion": "sportive + -ness",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "sportive + -ness",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sportivenesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "sportiveness (usually uncountable, plural sportivenesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ness",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1890, Theo. Stephenson Browne, In the Riding-School; Chats With Esmeralda",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, David Garnett, Lady Into Fox",
          "text": "Then he would play with his vixen, she encouraging him with her pretty sportiveness.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Edited by Rev. James Wood, The Nuttall Encyclopaedia",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the state of being sportive"
      ],
      "id": "en-sportiveness-en-noun-mlB-UyQw",
      "links": [
        [
          "sportive",
          "sportive"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sportiveness"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sportive",
        "3": "ness"
      },
      "expansion": "sportive + -ness",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "sportive + -ness",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sportivenesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "sportiveness (usually uncountable, plural sportivenesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ness",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1890, Theo. Stephenson Browne, In the Riding-School; Chats With Esmeralda",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, David Garnett, Lady Into Fox",
          "text": "Then he would play with his vixen, she encouraging him with her pretty sportiveness.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Edited by Rev. James Wood, The Nuttall Encyclopaedia",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the state of being sportive"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sportive",
          "sportive"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sportiveness"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (46b31b8 and c7ea76d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.