aliveness

plural alivenesses

1. uncountableusuallyThe state of being alive; exuberance, intensity.

   the aliveness of the colours in a painting

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   […] she's such a perplexing mixture of old New England and modernity, of a fatalism, and an aliveness that fairly vibrates.

   1917, Winston Churchill, The Dwelling-Place of Light, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company

   […] her eyes betrayed a complicated totality of paradoxical alivenesses.

   1920 September, Jack London, chapter 18, in Hearts of Three, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 231

   Sea-water wet their feet, wind tossed their hair, excitement quivered in every fibre of their aliveness.

   1944, Emily Carr, “Beacon Hill”, in The House of All Sorts