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Exultation vs Sportiveness - What's the difference?

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Exultation is a related term of sportiveness.


As nouns the difference between exultation and sportiveness

is that exultation is the act of exulting; lively joy at success or victory, or at any advantage gained; rapturous delight; triumph while sportiveness is the state of being sportive.

exultation

English

Noun

  • The act of exulting; lively joy at success or victory, or at any advantage gained; rapturous delight; triumph.

    • sportiveness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • the state of being sportive
  • *{{quote-book, year=1890, author=Theo. Stephenson Browne, title=In the Riding-School; Chats With Esmeralda, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=You will see the tame horse in the paddock gallop about for his pleasure, and the wild horse on the prairie will start and run for miles in mere sportiveness . }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=David Garnett, title=Lady Into Fox, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Then he would play with his vixen, she encouraging him with her pretty sportiveness . }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1907, author=Edited by Rev. James Wood, title=The Nuttall Encyclopaedia, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=OMAR KHAYYAM, astronomer-poet of Persia, born at Naishapur, in Khorassan; lived in the later half of the 11th century, and died in the first quarter of the 12th; wrote a collection of poems which breathe an Epicurean spirit, and while they occupy themselves with serious problems of life, do so with careless sportiveness , intent he on the enjoyment of the sensuous pleasures of life, like an easy-going Epicurean. }}