0 the quality of liking to play or being full of activity: --
The production has a playful friskiness.
She had the friskiness of a kitten.
He had been married for nearly fourteen years, his children were half grown, he had long since given up youthful friskiness, but she was "at it" still.
These boys of thirty-two or three are so pesky full of life and friskiness that you have to treat 'em as you would young lions.
He was soon running about with his wonted friskiness, and making himself useful in chasing wild tennis-balls.
There is much strength and friskiness in these fresh-water surges.
And she had all the tolerance and fascinated admiration of feminine youth for the friskiness of masculine freedom.
I left him, however, to make his own comments upon my friskiness, without affording him the smallest assistance.
It is in precisely this nothingness that its charm lies, its lightness, its grace, its friskiness, its strength, its motion, its adaptability to circumstances.
The word is applied to the friskiness or wantonness of animals, and it is very easy to understand its application.
