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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LI'VELINESS, 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.
2. An appearance of life, animation or spirit; as the liveliness of the eye or countenance in a portrait.
3. Briskness; activity; effervescence, as of liquors.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: general activity and motion [syn: liveliness, animation]
2: animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it" [syn: liveliness, life, spirit, sprightliness]

Merriam Webster's

noun see lively

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see lively

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Sprightliness, vivacity, animation, spirit, briskness, activity. 2. Activity, effervescence.

Moby Thesaurus

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