liveliness

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age.

An appearance of life, animation, or spirit; as, the liveliness of the eye or the countenance in a portrait.

Briskness; activity; effervescence, as of liquors.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

animation sprightliness life activity spirit vivacity briskness esprit elan energy action fire health salt punch
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Antonyms

sandman depression heartache aggravation cyanosis distress
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Hypernyms

activity animation brio invigoration vivification spiritedness

Hyponyms

esprit elan energy pep vim enthusiasm

Phrases with the word

enthusiastic liveliness

Anagrams

villeiness

Examples

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did. Jane Austen

If you think about it, being digital is Italian. It's underground, provocative, interactive. It has humor, discourse, and debate. It has a kind of liveliness to it. Nicholas Negroponte

I like the spontaneity; I like to just get people together and hit 'record' so hopefully it has got a liveliness about it. Stevie Jackson

The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected. Salman Rushdie

A small, but interesting, portion of baseball can be understood on the basis of physical principles. The flight of balls, the liveliness of balls, the structure of bats, and the character of the collisions of balls and bats are a natural province of physics and physicists. Robert Adair (physicist)

Life is the name of liveliness. Pakistani Proverb

Close letter words and terms

livelihood livelihood opportunities livelily livelock livelocked livelod