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Liveliness   /lˈaɪvlinəs/   Listen
noun
Liveliness  n.  
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.
Synonyms: 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.






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"Liveliness" Quotes from Famous Books



... sweep a chamber where a precious pearl had been dropped. I must have a companion in my search, partly to help me look about, and partly because I was getting nervous and felt lonely. Charley said he would go with me,—Charley, my Captain's beloved friend, gentle, but full of spirit and liveliness, cultivated, social, affectionate, a good talker, a most agreeable letter-writer, observing, with large relish of life, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 62, December, 1862 • Various

... constructing a story, in the depiction of character, in deepening the interest by the alternation of happiness and misfortune, he was to go far beyond his initial triumph,—still with many Dickensians, who love him chiefly for his liveliness of observation and broad humour, Pickwick remains ...
— Victorian Worthies - Sixteen Biographies • George Henry Blore

... a Liveliness of Expression to be preserv'd in Pastoral as well as other Poetry; now I affirm that 'tis impossible to perform this without Old-Words; unless a Writer make Shepherds talk Sublimely, and with ...
— A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) • Thomas Purney

... mist about them has a faint greenish tinge, while the four stars, together with three others at no great distance, which follow a fold of the nebula like a row of buttons on a coat, always appear to me to show an extraordinary liveliness of radiance, as if the strange haze ...
— Pleasures of the telescope • Garrett Serviss

... words verbatim. I really looked at the young lady in astonishment, that she should see nothing but a want of liveliness in a picture, which most of us feel to be sublime. But Miss D——- had an old grudge against you, for not having made her papa's villa sufficiently prominent in your view ...
— Elinor Wyllys - Vol. I • Susan Fenimore Cooper


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