Meanings
nounsportiness (uncountable)
- uncountableThe property of being sporty.
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.
1952, Frances Bruce Strain, Love at the Threshold, page 178
Origin
Translations
Catalan esportivitat
- esportivitatquality of being sporty
Finnish urheilullisuus
- urheilullisuusquality of being sporty
Latvian sportiskums
- sportiskumsquality of being sporty
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APA
sportiness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sportiness
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“sportiness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sportiness. Accessed November 5, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sportiness,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sportiness.
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