Meaning of LIVELINESS
| Pronunciation: | | l'Ivleenus
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- [n] general activity and motion
- [n] animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it"
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| | Synonyms: | | animation, life, spirit, sprightliness |
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| | See Also: | | activity, airiness, alacrity, animation, breeziness, brio, briskness, buoyancy, delicacy, ebullience, elan, energy, enthusiasm, esprit, exuberance, ginger, high-spiritedness, invigoration, irrepressibility, jauntiness, pep, peppiness, spiritedness, vigor, vigour, vim, vivification | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Live"li*ness\, n. [From {Lively}.]
1. The quality or state of being lively or animated;
sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the
liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age.
--B. Jonson.
2. An appearance of life, animation, or spirit; as, the
liveliness of the eye or the countenance in a portrait.
3. Briskness; activity; effervescence, as of liquors.
Syn: Sprightliness; gayety; animation; vivacity; smartness;
briskness; activity. -- {Liveliness}, {Gayety},
{Animation}, {Vivacity}. Liveliness is an habitual
feeling of life and interest; gayety refers more to a
temporary excitement of the animal spirits; animation
implies a warmth of emotion and a corresponding
vividness of expressing it, awakened by the presence of
something which strongly affects the mind; vivacity is a
feeling between liveliness and animation, having the
permanency of the one, and, to some extent, the warmth
of the other. Liveliness of imagination; gayety of
heart; animation of countenance; vivacity of gesture or
conversation.
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| | Related Terms: | | activity, adaptability, alacrity, animal spirits, animate existence, animation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, ardency, ardor, avidity, avidness, being alive, birth, bite, bounce, bounciness, breathless impatience, breeziness, brio, briskness, bubbliness, buoyance, buoyancy, capersomeness, cheerful readiness, coltishness, dash, eagerness, ebullience, ecstasy, effervescence, elan, elasticity, energy, enthusiasm, esprit, excitement, existence, extensibility, exuberance, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fire, flexibility, forwardness, friskiness, frolicsomeness, furor, fury, gaiety, gamesomeness, gayness, ginger, give, glow, gust, gusto, guts, having life, heart, heartiness, heat, hotness, immortality, impassionedness, impatience, impetuosity, impetus, joie de vivre, keen desire, keenness, kick, life, lifetime, living, long life, longevity, lustiness, mettle, moxie, nip, nippiness, passion, passionateness, pep, pepperiness, peppiness, perkiness, pertness, piquancy, piss and vinegar, pizzazz, playfulness, poignancy, promptness, punch, pungency, quickness, raciness, readiness, rebound, relish, resilience, resiliency, responsiveness, robustness, rollicksomeness, rompishness, savor, skittishness, snap, snappiness, soul, sparkle, spice, spiciness, spirit, spiritedness, spirits, sportiveness, sprightliness, spring, springiness, spriteliness, stretch, stretchability, stretchiness, tang, tanginess, tone, tonicity, tonus, vehemence, verve, viability, vigor, vim, vitality, vivaciousness, vivacity, vividness, warmth, warmth of feeling, zeal, zest, zestfulness, zip |
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