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noun
The quality of being lively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: animatedness, animation, effervescence, energy, fizz
Antonyms: unliveliness, deanimation, de-energization, devitalization, disanimation
noun
general activity and motion
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: animation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: activity
noun
animation and energy in action or expression
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: life, spirit, sprightliness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: animation, spiritedness, invigoration, brio, vivification
Narrower terms: pertness, airiness, delicacy, alacrity, briskness, smartness, energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim, elan, esprit, breeziness, jauntiness, irrepressibility, buoyancy, high-spiritedness, exuberance, enthusiasm, ebullience, pep, peppiness, ginger
History
Etymology tree English lively Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English liveliness From lively + -ness.
Across languages
37 source translations are retained for this English entry.
