Definition of Livingness

1. n. The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.

Definition of Livingness

1. Noun. The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigour; animation. ¹

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Definition of Livingness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Livingness

living room
living rooms
living space
living standard
living stone
living substance
living thing
living tissue
living together
living trust
living up
living wage
living will
living wills
livingly
livingness (current term)
livingnesses
livingroom
livingroom set
livingroom suite
livingrooms
livings
livingstone daisy
livingstonite
livish
livity
livor
livors
livraison
livre

Literary usage of Livingness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The System of Animate Nature: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the by John Arthur Thomson (1920)
"... OF livingness. § 1. Living and Not-living. § 2. The Essential Characteristics of Living Organisms. § 3. Persistence of a Complex Specific Metabolism and ..."

2. The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science by Thomas Troward (1909)
"be found by comparing one degree of livingness with another. There is, of course, one sense in which the quality of livingness does not admit of degrees; ..."

3. Man and the Cosmos: An Introduction to Metaphysics by Joseph Alexander Leighton (1922)
"livingness is the most significant characteristic of reality ... livingness, in turn, is the basis for the development of conscious mind. ..."

4. Autology, Study Thyself: And Autopathy, Cure Thyself by Edmond Raymond Moras (1912)
"I know what constitutes the chemical action of livingness in the phosphates and carbonates of the soil—so to that degree I know what constitutes the ..."

5. Exploratio Philosophica by John Grote (1900)
"His ' soul' is life,' livingness,' the living principle, ... That is, the investigation is about the being or essence of the soul or livingness, ..."

6. Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later: Both by the Original Discoverer of the by Samuel Butler (1920)
"What completer proof can we have that livingness consists in deed rather than in consciousness of deed? "The foregoing remarks are not intended to apply so ..."

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