high-spiritedness

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high-spir·it·ed (h

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adj.

1. Having a proud or unbroken spirit: a high-spirited horse.

2. Vivacious; lively: a high-spirited tune.

high-spirit·ed·ly adv.

high-spirit·ed·ness n.

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high-spiritedness - exuberant liveliness

sprightliness, liveliness, spirit, life - animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it"

vivacity - characterized by high spirits and animation

mettlesomeness - courageous high-spiritedness

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On-screen meanness has since given way to high-spiritedness, and faster than you could say ``instant ingenue,'' the London, Ontario, native, who turns 29 in October, has became the heroine of the month.

FIRST CLASS RED-HOT RACHEL MCADAMS TAKES OFF IN ``RED EYE' by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

Our notion of de Kooning's basic identity shifts and recenters, tuned to a strain of comic high-spiritedness.

Willem De Kooning: Matthew Marks Gallery. (Reviews) by Worth, Alexi / Artforum International

For all of its humor and high-spiritedness - not to mention what it forces us to examine about our assumptions - post-modern awareness can be articulated as a double-edged view of the world.

Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues by Hill, Lynda M. / African American Review

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