spriteliness

Buoyant, animated quality

Spriteliness is the quality of being lively, energetic, and light in movement or spirit.

The word suggests nimble vitality—someone with spriteliness moves or acts with quick, buoyant energy: Despite her age, she retained a remarkable spriteliness.

The term derives from sprite, evoking the airy quickness of mythical spirits.

physical

nimbleness

Ease of quick movement

liveliness · bounciness · springiness · peppiness · jauntiness · briskness · spryness · deftness · suppleness · light-footedness

youthful

vigor

Active physical strength

youngness · youthfulness · rejuvenation · spryness · robustness · vim · bounce · pep · get-up-and-go · spiritedness

personality

cheerfulness

State of bright spirits

perkiness · sparkle · ebullience · playfulness · merriment · animation · exuberance · zest · enthusiasm · joyfulness

Opposites
energy and vitality

spritelinesssluggishness

State of slow movement

lethargy · torpor · listlessness · languor · inertia

mood and spirit

spritelinessmoroseness

Ill-tempered gloominess

melancholy · glumness · sullenness · dreariness · dejection

Family

sprite, spritely, sprightliness, sprightly, spirit, spirits, spirited, spiritual, spirituality

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