liveliness : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: liveliness	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for liveliness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
liveliness n general activity and motion [syn: liveliness, animation] animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it" Synonym(s): liveliness, life, spirit, sprightliness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Liveliness \Live"liness\, n. [From {Lively}.] 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. --B. Jonson. 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. Syn: 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.