Synonyms for sprightliness
spright·li·ness

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1. sprightliness

   Liveliness and sprightliness are pleasant and commendable; smartness is a limited and showy acuteness or shrewdness, usually with unfavorable suggestion; pertness and sauciness are these qualities overdone, and regardless of the respect due to superiors. Impertinence and impudence may be gross and stupid; pertness and sauciness are always vivid and keen. Compare IMPUDENCE.

   Synonyms:
   boldness, briskness, flippancy, forwardness, impertinence, impudence, liveliness, pertness, sauciness, smartness

   Antonyms:
   bashfulness, demureness, diffidence, humility, modesty, shyness

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1. liveliness, life, spirit, sprightlinessnoun

   animation and energy in action or expression

   "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it"

   Synonyms:
   liveliness, smell, flavour, disembodied spirit, animation, life-time, purport, life, feeling, flavor, lifespan, spirit, life sentence, feel, emotional state, life history, look, aliveness, intent, living, lifetime, biography, tone, heart, life story

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1. sprightlinessnoun

   Synonyms:
   liveliness, briskness, vivacity, animation, alertness, cheerfulness, gayety, frolicsomeness

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1. sprightlinessnoun

   Synonyms:
   animation, liveliness, vivacity, activity, briskness, lilt

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1. Johann Georg von Zimmermann:

   Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy.