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    ANIMATENESS

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant lifeplay

    Synonyms:

    aliveness; animateness; liveness

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    Hypernyms ("animateness" is a kind of...):

    physiological property (a property having to do with the functioning of the body)

    Attribute:

    animate (endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life)

    inanimate; non-living; nonliving (not endowed with life)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "animateness"):

    animation; vitality (the property of being able to survive and grow)

    sentience (the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness)

    Antonym:

    inanimateness (not having life)

    Derivation:

    animate (endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness)

    animate (endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life)

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