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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 (gcide)

Liveliness \Live"li*ness\, 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.
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2. An appearance of life, animation, or spirit; as, the
liveliness of the eye or the countenance in a portrait.
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3. Briskness; activity; effervescence, as of liquors.
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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.
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