Playfulness is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PLAYFULNESS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being playful
• the quality of being light-hearted or full of fun
• a festive merry feeling
• a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement
• activities that are enjoyable or amusing
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• full of play; frolicsome, sportive

Words related to PLAYFULNESS

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Words that contain PLAYFULNESS

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How to use PLAYFULNESS in a sentence

• He has been called a cynic, but the boyish playfulness of his humor and his kindly spirit are incompatible with cynicism.
• Some birds were twittering on the trees of the garden, shaking the leaves with their mischievous playfulness, as if the fires of Springtime were coursing in their veins.
• Finding themselves unharmed as the hours went on, the little creatures became more confident, and finally resumed their natural playfulness.
• But now, at length, the old vivacity and playfulness and merry laugh began to come back again.
• Playfulness and kindness were the instruments by which she managed him.
• Affecting that air of playfulness, therefore, which is delightful in a woman one loves, she opened the letter directly, and read its contents.
• But in his lyrical and fugitive pieces he has shown even more genius, more playfulness, more mischievous gaiety.
• This society began in raillery and playfulness, seasoned by a spice of malice.
• Even the Gods, even angry Apollo, are moved to laughter, for over sport and playfulness, too, Greek religion throws her sanction.
• The gaiety of the best Paganism, as in the playfulness of Catullus or Theocritus, is, indeed, an eternal gaiety never to be forgotten by a grateful humanity.
• It is seldom that we meet with volumes of more real power than these, or whose force is so artistically masked under ease and playfulness.
• Into his eye there came a light of playfulness, then pity, quickly to be followed by a twinkle of fun.
• It may with them as with some lower animals simply be an instinctive playfulness, a habit or a necessity, as a weapon consciously and voluntarily wielded.
• He had no fund of high spirits to draw upon, and his playfulness was too near deadly earnest for the comedy of common life.
• It was a gay ten minutes, for the man laughed at the whimsical playfulness with which Miss Raymond set off the pitiful little tale of the daily struggle for existence.
• Both he and Addison had it in mind while they were blending their calm playfulness with all the clamour of the press.
• This is true of the college youth in his playfulness.
• They were too heavy for her, and their increasing scope of playfulness was not in her line.
• We must not forget the kindly face of Humphry Davy, whose gracious playfulness was ever a charm to the Wordsworths.
• After looking for a minute or two, I went to the child, and in sheer playfulness challenged the boy for a throw.
• With him was his wife, a very charming and refined woman, full of the pleasant playfulness of her country.
• It would therefore be as well to comply with her request and try to explain that their seemingly ungrateful conduct had only been the outcome of their innate playfulness.
• Hamilton had recalled all her playfulness, for she wished to banish every trace of sadness and emotion from the countenance of her niece.
• There the broad beam of day, which feebly once Lighted the cheek of lean captivity With a pale and sickly glare, then freely shone On the pure smiles of infant playfulness.
• His uneasiness in the first instance had been, evidently, but the result of playfulness or caprice, but he now assumed a bitter and serious tone.
• Pelagie was a grim joke, and tipping in the river merely your playfulness.
• At every little shooting scrape or other playfulness of the male population Blackman, Justice of the Peace, became inflated with importance and looked monstrous grave.
• There is, in etching, a lightness and playfulness of execution which excuses, if it does not quite reconcile us to a bad subject.
• The merry playfulness of her capricious flight shivered their diamond rays.
• The next instant, recovering her light playfulness with a little laugh, she took his arm and led the way to the dining-room.

Similar words containing PLAYFULNES without suffix s

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