playfulness

[ US /ˈpɫeɪfəɫnəs/ ]
[ UK /plˈe‍ɪfə‍lnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement
    he was fun to be with
    her playfulness surprised me
  2. activities that are enjoyable or amusing
    he is fun to have around
    I do it for the fun of it
  3. a festive merry feeling
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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
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