sprightliness

Other forms of sprightliness

plural

sprightlinesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sprightliness

What does sprightliness mean?

sprightliness means "animation and energy in action or expression".

How many syllables are in sprightliness?

sprightliness has 3 syllables: spright-li-ness. The stress falls on "spright".

What is another word for sprightliness?

Close synonyms include liveliness, life, spirit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sprightliness a common word?

sprightliness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.