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LIVELINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
General activity and motion
Synonyms:
animation; liveliness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("liveliness" is a kind of...):
activity (any specific behavior)
Derivation:
lively (filled with events or activity)
lively (full of life and energy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Animation and energy in action or expression
Example:
it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it
Synonyms:
life; liveliness; spirit; sprightliness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("liveliness" is a kind of...):
animation; brio; invigoration; spiritedness; vivification (quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous)
Attribute:
lively (full of life and energy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "liveliness"):
pertness (quality of being lively and confident)
airiness; delicacy (lightness in movement or manner)
alacrity; briskness; smartness (liveliness and eagerness)
energy; muscularity; vigor; vigour; vim (an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing))
elan (enthusiastic and assured vigor and liveliness)
esprit (liveliness of mind or spirit)
breeziness; jauntiness (a breezy liveliness)
buoyancy; irrepressibility (irrepressible liveliness and good spirit)
high-spiritedness (exuberant liveliness)
ebullience; enthusiasm; exuberance (overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval)
ginger; pep; peppiness (liveliness and energy)
Derivation:
lively (full of spirit; full of life)
lively (elastic; rebounds readily)
lively (quick and energetic)
lively (full of zest or vigor)
Context examples:
It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both; by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
She feared she had been doing wrong: saying too much, overacting the caution which she had been fancying necessary; in guarding against one evil, laying herself open to another; and to have Miss Crawford's liveliness repeated to her at such a moment, and on such a subject, was a bitter aggravation.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Lively as he was, it seemed a liveliness that did not satisfy himself; but what decided her belief on the subject, was his staying only a quarter of an hour, and hurrying away to make other calls in Highbury.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
