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Laughter vs Sportiveness - What's the difference?

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Laughter is a related term of sportiveness.


As nouns the difference between laughter and sportiveness

is that laughter is the sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound while sportiveness is the state of being sportive.

laughter

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(wikipedia laughter) (en-noun)
  • The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
    • , title=, chapter=1 , passage=There was some laughter , and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town.}}
  • A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
  • * (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
    • The act of laughter , which is a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves.
  • * (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
    • Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter .
  • (label) A reason for merriment.

    • Related terms

    * laugh

    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. }}