What does springiness mean?

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springi·ness

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. give, spring, springinessnoun

    the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length

Wiktionary

  1. springinessnoun

    The property of being springy.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Springinessnoun

    Elasticity; power of restoring itself.

    Etymology: from springy.

    Where there is a continued endeavour of the parts of a body to put themselves into another state, the progress may be much more slow, since it was a great while before the texture of the corpuscles of the steel were so altered as to make them lose their former springiness. Boyle.

    The air is a thin fluid body, endowed with elasticity and springiness, capable of condensation and rarefaction. Richard Bentley.

ChatGPT

  1. springiness

    Springiness is a characteristic or quality of being elastic or capable of returning to the original form or position after being bent, stretched, or compressed. It is the state or condition of having resilience or a lively, bouncing quality.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Springinessnoun

    the state or quality of being springly

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of springiness in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of springiness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of springiness in a Sentence

  1. R. Buckminster Fuller:

    Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

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