sprightliness
- n animation and energy in action or expression
- It still had traces of gay cynicism, Gallic sprightliness and wit.
- Injecting pituitary serum into docile, doddering rats, he noticed that they grew hair, an appetite, and sprightliness.
- He kept his own counsel, shunning Harlem's high society and enjoying the company of his wife Lucille, a former beauty parlor operator whose sprightliness contrasted with his own .