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Definition of Liveliness
1. Noun. General activity and motion.
2. Noun. Animation and energy in action or expression. "It was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it"
Generic synonyms: Animation, Brio, Invigoration, Spiritedness, Vivification
Specialized synonyms: Pertness, Airiness, Delicacy, Alacrity, Briskness, Smartness, Energy, Muscularity, Vigor, Vigour, Vim, Elan, Esprit, Breeziness, Jauntiness, Buoyancy, Irrepressibility, High-spiritedness, Ebullience, Enthusiasm, Exuberance, Ginger, Pep, Peppiness
Attributes: Lively
Derivative terms: Lively, Lively, Lively, Lively, Spirit, Spiritize, Sprightly
Definition of Liveliness
1. n. The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age.
Definition of Liveliness
1. Noun. The quality of being lively; animation; energy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Liveliness
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Medical Definition of Liveliness
1. 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. 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. Synonym: 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. Origin: From Lively. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Liveliness
Literary usage of Liveliness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume (1890)
"It is for lack of this explanation that Locke himself, as we have seen, finds in
the liveliness and involuntariness of ideas the sole and sufficient tests ..."
2. The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D. D.: Late Head-master of by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1910)
"Another point to which I attach much importance is liveliness. This seems to me
an essential condition of sympathy with creatures so lively aa boys are ..."
3. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green (1894)
"liveliness confusion with the other each alike becomes unreal. Thus, evidence of
though with Locke simple ideas are necessarily real, ..."
4. English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"liveliness OP EXPRESSION is of the greatest importance to the orator or the writer,
... I. liveliness of Expression as depending on the CHOICE OF WORDS. 1. ..."
5. English Literature of the Nineteenth Century: On the Plan of the Author's by Charles Dexter Cleveland (1857)
"Another point to which I attach much importance is liveliness. This seems to me
an essential condition of sympathy with creatures BO lively as boys are ..."
6. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"105. (2) To live under, to be tenant to. To Uve upright, to retire from business.
(3) Fresh, as honey, &c. Somerset. LIVELIHOOD. liveliness ; activity. ..."
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