Vivacity
[vɪ'væsɪtɪ]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being vivacious.
(n.) Tenacity of life; vital force; natural vigor.
(n.) Life; animation; spiritedness; liveliness; sprightliness; as, the vivacity of a discourse; a lady of great vivacity; vivacity of countenance.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Liveliness, sprightliness, animation, life, cheerfulness, gayety, cheer, good humor, good spirits, high spirits.
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Examples
- There was a stage, that evening, when she spoke collectedly of what had happened, though with a certain terrible vivacity. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The accompanying soldiers received, with national vivacity, enthusiastic pleasure from the sight of beautiful nature. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A like reflection on general rules keeps us from augmenting our belief upon every encrease of the force and vivacity of our ideas. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Had I known as much half an hour agoBut since I AM here,speaking with a forced vivacity as he returned to his seatwhat does it signify? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- He had been talking all day, on many subjects, and with unusual vivacity. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- By the vivacity of the idea we interest the fancy, and produce, though in a lesser degree, the same pleasure, which arises from a moderate passion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Fourthly and lastly, Explain that force and vivacity of conception, which arises from the propensity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- So that as belief does nothing but vary the manner, in which we conceive any object, it can only bestow on our ideas an additional force and vivacity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- His vivacity, intelligence, and active spirit of benevolence, completed the conquest. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- His lady greeted him with some of her sparkling vivacity. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Or, SECONDLY, That it runs into the other similar and correspondent views, and gives them a superior degree of force and vivacity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Sympathy being the conversion of an idea into an impression, demands a greater force and vivacity in the idea than is requisite to comparison. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- When you would any way vary the idea of a particular object, you can only encrease or diminish its force and vivacity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Impressions and ideas differ only in their strength and vivacity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Wherever our ideas of good or evil acquire a new vivacity, the passions become more violent; and keep pace with the imagination in all its variations. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- With what pungent vivacities--what an impetus of mutiny--what a fougue of injustice! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Here I could not avoid opening my eyes somewhat wide, and even slipping in a slight interjectional observation: Vivacities? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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