Animation
[ænɪ'meɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ænɪ'meʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the making of animated cartoons.
(noun.) quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous.
(noun.) the property of being able to survive and grow; 'the vitality of a seed'.
(noun.) the condition of living or the state of being alive; 'while there's life there's hope'; 'life depends on many chemical and physical processes'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive.
(n.) The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness; as, he recited the story with great animation.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Life, existence, vitality, breath, vital power, vital spark, breath of life.[2]. Liveliness, spirit, spiritedness, vivacity, sprightliness, buoyancy, elasticity, airiness, vigor, ardor, force, strength, energy, exhilaration, cheerfulness, gayety, cheer, animal spirits, high spirits, good spirits.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Life, vivacity, liveliness, airlines, cheerfulness, briskness, alacrity,buoyancy, spirit, exhilaration, sprightliness, promptitude, alertness,activity
ANT:Expiration, spiritlessness, dulness, dolefulness, deadness, stolidity,inertness
Editor: Roxanne
Examples
- It was now a real animation; and she began to dress for it with much of the happy flutter which belongs to a ball. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Some were uncoupling the dogs, whose hoarse, savage bay added not a little to the animation of the scene. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- We accordingly brought him back to the deck, and restored him to animation by rubbing him with brandy, and forcing him to swallow a small quantity. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- She had been all animation with the game, and irritated pride did not lower the expression of her haughty lineaments. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Idris conversed with animation on a thousand topics. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- You are silent, he cried, with great animation; absolutely silent! Jane Austen. Emma.
- In one instant, after the clock struck two, the whole of this deserted and quiet spot had become a scene of most extraordinary life and animation. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He was a man whom it made happy to see others happy; he liked to have movement, animation, abundance and enjoyment round him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I am quite well, said Fanny, in a tone of great animation. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn stops short, surprised by my Lady's animation and her unusual tone. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- When the discourse was at this point of animation, came up Mr. Frank Hawley. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- On this subject Cedric was all animation. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The evening conversation, when they were all assembled, had lost much of its animation, and almost all its sense by the absence of Jane and Elizabeth. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It was a scene of great animation and confusion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She looked paler than usual, but sparkling with an unwonted animation. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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