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playfulness

noun C2
  1. The quality of being playful. (uncountable)

Plural playfulnesses

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Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 24 · B2
Elizabeth’s spirits soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 360 · B2

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