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US
/ˈpɫeɪfəɫnəs/
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[ UK /plˈeɪfəlnəs/ ]
[ UK /plˈeɪfəlnəs/ ]
NOUN
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a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement
he was fun to be with
her playfulness surprised me -
activities that are enjoyable or amusing
he is fun to have around
I do it for the fun of it - a festive merry feeling
How To Use playfulness In A Sentence
- There are, true, a few tonal changes: the jokes are jokier, the touches of malice heavier, and she revels more obviously than before in the playfulness she brings to her performances. What Sarah Palin Doesn't Know
- Wit and playfulness is one thing, sending your models out in full Highland regalia is quite another. Times, Sunday Times
- He is a great, flabby sham, an actor close to suicide, maybe - and this is an extraordinary display of incipient madness or incorrigible playfulness.
- She smiled at his playfulness and bit into an apple, tonguing a bit of sweet juice that threatened to run down the side of her lip.
- And yet there is a playfulness about the expert finders.
- It was almost a prayer, but a prayer that included a thousand meanings Daylight strove to feign sheepishness, but his heart was singing too wild a song for mere playfulness. Chapter XXIV
- her playfulness surprised me
- There's a kind of staidness and a kind of fear, I suppose, of playfulness, of merriment, of the colloquial and the demotic.
- The film certainly succeeds in doing that - but it also taps into Barrie's well-documented yearning for a world in which playfulness and whimsy would always triumph over seriousness and propriety.
- The focus of the design proposition has been to help in opening up thedrinking occasionality, and communicating theconcept of ‘infectious playfulness’ for Baileys. Bailissimo Traveling Bar by Jump Studios