sprightliness's Usage Examples:

There is in his poetry a joyousness and sprightliness which at once distinguish it from the work of any other Turkish author.

"Rhymed prose was a favourite form of composition among the Arabs of that day, and Mahomet adopted it; but if it imparts a certain sprightliness to some passages, it proves on the whole a burdensome yoke.

Synonyms:

esprit, elan, vigor, enthusiasm, buoyancy, animation, lively, exuberance, peppiness, life, liveliness, briskness, energy, breeziness, spirit, brio, airiness, smartness, alacrity, pep, ginger, vivification, vim, delicacy, high-spiritedness, jauntiness, vigour, pertness, ebullience, irrepressibility, invigoration, muscularity, spiritedness,

Antonyms:

tactlessness, spiritless, spirited, inactiveness, dull,