spiritedness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for spiritedness
Noun
  • Yet beneath his ebullience there was an intensity that drew me in.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
  • Renoir plays Octave with a high-relief ebullience to match that of his professional cast of actors while raising his self-depiction to a portrayal of the cinema itself.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • Institutional enthusiasm for digital assets is rising, and the U.S. regulatory climate has grown friendlier, even as the economics of mining face more pressure from bitcoin’s quadrennial halving.
    Becca Bratcher, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Time will tell whether ASI’s enthusiasm was ultimately strategic or premature.
    Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Although the novel was set in the Eighties, the film came to symbolize British culture in the 1990s, with an iconic catchphrase — choose life — that, although it was originally delivered with irony, became synonymous with the vivacity of Britain at the time.
    Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2025
  • The key has been the gradual introduction of a new generation around the experienced core to supplement their talents with pace and vivacity.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • Heavy objects should be kept out of pockets to maintain maximum buoyancy.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 30 May 2025
  • And their ambiguity is essential to their buoyancy.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • Her effervescence gets reduced to blandness in Allen’s movies, which ultimately feels more like his issue than hers.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 23 July 2025
  • There’s palpable energy, effervescence and expectation inside the JAM Center, four full months before the start of the season.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • This means that the light source features red, green and blue lasers that merge for 5,000 ANSI lumens brightness and 110% coverage of the BT.2020 color space.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 Aug. 2025
  • For brightness and crunch, the salad is tossed with a citrus vinaigrette and, just before serving, garnished with cilantro and smoked almonds.
    Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2025
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“Spiritedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiritedness. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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