sportiness

English

Etymology

From sporty +‎ -ness.

Noun

sportiness (uncountable)

1. The property of being sporty.
   • 1952, Frances Bruce Strain, Love at the Threshold, page 178:

     This, it seems to me, is the essential for marriage happiness, rather than the matching up of trait with trait, bookiness with bookiness, sportiness with sportiness, as Cinderella's Prince matched foot with slipper.

Translations

quality of being sporty

• Catalan: esportivitat f
• Finnish: urheilullisuus (fi)
• Latvian: sportiskums m

Anagrams

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