sportiness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English sporty Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English sportiness From sporty + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The property of being sporty.
This, it seems to me, is the essential for marriage happiness, rather than the matching up of trait with trait, bookiness with bookiness, sportiness with sportiness, as Cinderella's Prince matched foot with slipper.
1952, Frances Bruce Strain, Love at the Threshold, page 178:
Translations (3)
ca esportivitat (quality of being sporty) · lv sportiskums (quality of being sporty) · fi urheilullisuus (quality of being sporty)