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US
/ˈɫaɪvɫinəs/
]
[ UK /lˈaɪvlɪnəs/ ]
[ UK /lˈaɪvlɪnəs/ ]
NOUN
- general activity and motion
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animation and energy in action or expression
it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it
How To Use liveliness In A Sentence
- At the same time, we should not simply pursue the liveliness and glad of the playgame .
- His style was good and the author's liveliness of spirit survives the rather rigid framework of his subjects.
- Shall I call the liveliness of this day a gale of the Spirit, or was all natural? The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne
- Often what Nietzsche means is something close to vitality or even liveliness.
- As the recording of Walter Reiter and Cordaria shows, the less well-known Vivaldi does not lack elegance, spectacularity and virtuosity, liveliness and instant communicativeness.
- But to come back to Lorna again (which I always longed to do, and must long for ever), all the change between night and day, all the shifts of cloud and sun, all the difference between black death and brightsome liveliness, scarcely may suggest or equal Lorna's transformation. Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor
- She had early learned to ignore his moods, to avoid sympathy which aggravates, and to meet his blues with a vigorous counterirritant of liveliness. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I
- For Mr. Nádas, a Budapest native who now lives in a remote village near the Austrian border, the decades since 1989 have restored a "liveliness" to Budapest that Communism had managed to erase. Across Eastern Europe, Remembering the Curtain's Fall
- The 'liveliness' of such rapid measures is thus a resultant of several factors. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
- Fay sat on the edge of the bed, her pretty face lacking its usual liveliness.