liveliness

live·li·ness
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/ˈlaɪvlinəs/

noun

The quality of being lively.

UncommonScrabble 13

Meanings

nounliveliness (countable and uncountable, plural livelinesses)

plural livelinesses

  1. countableuncountableThe quality of being lively.
    1 more example

    The response to firing is remarkable, and though the 280 lb. pressure seems more in the nature of a reserve for emergencies than a continuous working figure, even with the present-day apology for coal it seldom fell below 250 lb., and could always be brought up to blowing-off point with little difficulty. To this liveliness of steaming the thermic syphons are doubtless the chief contributory.

    1947 January and February, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 39

    Synonyms: animatedness, animation, effervescence, energy, fizz · Antonyms: unliveliness, deanimation, de-energization, devitalization, disanimation

Synonyms & antonyms

More synonyms by meaning

noungeneral activity and motion

Similar
Broader

nounanimation and energy in action or expression

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Bulgarian оживление
  • оживление (oživlenie)the quality of being lively
Chinese Mandarin 活潑性 /活泼性
  • 活潑性 /活泼性the quality of being lively
Dutch levendigheid
  • levendigheidthe quality of being lively
Finnish vilkkaus
  • vilkkausthe quality of being lively
French vitalité
  • vitalitéthe quality of being lively
German Lebendigkeit
  • Lebendigkeitthe quality of being lively
Greek ζωντάνια
  • ζωντάνια (zontánia)the quality of being lively
Hindi जीवंतता
  • जीवंतता (jīvanttā)the quality of being lively
Irish aibíocht, abúlacht
  • aibíochtthe quality of being lively
  • abúlachtthe quality of being lively
  • beogachtthe quality of being lively
  • éirimiúlachtthe quality of being lively
  • anamúlachtthe quality of being lively
Latvian možums, mundrums
  • možumsthe quality of being lively
  • mundrumsthe quality of being lively
  • mundrībathe quality of being lively
  • žirgtumsthe quality of being lively
  • spirgtumsthe quality of being lively
Polish żwawość
  • żwawośćthe quality of being lively
Portuguese vitalidade
  • vitalidadethe quality of being lively
Romanian vitalitate, vioiciune
  • vitalitatethe quality of being lively
  • vioiciunethe quality of being lively
  • însuflețirethe quality of being lively
  • vivacitatethe quality of being lively
Russian оживле́ние
  • оживле́ние (oživlénije)the quality of being lively
Spanish viveza, vivez
  • vivezathe quality of being lively
  • vivezthe quality of being lively
Tamil கலகலப்பு
  • கலகலப்பு (kalakalappu)the quality of being lively
Turkish canlılık
  • canlılıkthe quality of being lively

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