Liveliness
['laɪvlɪnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) general activity and motion.
(noun.) animation and energy in action or expression; 'it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it'.
Checked by Alfreda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age.
(n.) An appearance of life, animation, or spirit; as, the liveliness of the eye or the countenance in a portrait.
(n.) Briskness; activity; effervescence, as of liquors.
Typist: Mason
Examples
- A particular shade of any colour may acquire a new degree of liveliness or brightness without any other variation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- These passions are moved by degrees of liveliness and strength, which are inferior to belief, and independent of the real existence of their objects. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- She adopted at once their grace, their liveliness, their manner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He would enjoy her liveliness and she has talents to value his powers. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Tell her, her husband wants liveliness, diversion: put her on amusing tactics. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It did not suit his sense of propriety, and he was silenced, till induced by further smiles and liveliness to put the matter by for the present. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- My liveliness and your solidity would produce perfection. Jane Austen. Emma.
- For the liveliness of your mind, I did. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Three or four ladies of distinction and liveliness used to say to one another, 'Let us dine at our dear Merdle's next Thursday. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- There is an immensity of promenading, on crutches and off, with sticks and without, and a great deal of conversation, and liveliness, and pleasantry. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Glaucon has more of the liveliness and quick sympathy of youth; Adeimantus has the maturer judgment of a grown-up man of the world. Plato. The Republic.
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