gamesomeness

English

Etymology

gamesome +‎ -ness

Noun

gamesomeness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being gamesome.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
      So when they were working that evening at the pumps, there was on this head no small gamesomeness slily going on among them, as they stood with their feet continually overflowed by the rippling clear water […]
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