[f. next + -ITY.] Capacity for being sportive or playful.
1768. Sterne, Sent. Journ., Passport. I have something within me which cannot bear the shock of the least indecent insinuation; in the sportability of chit-chat I have often endeavoured to conquer it.
1782. Eliz. Blower, Geo. Bateman, III. 105. Assuming an air of juvenile sportability.
1835. Fraser’s Mag., XII. 235. We see the Greek girl preparing to sing with a languishing sportability of air.
