ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Aliveness

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /əˈlaɪvnəs/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Aliveness is a noun meaning The state of being alive; exuberance, intensity.

Meaning

The state of being alive; exuberance, intensity.

Example Sentences

the aliveness of the colours in a painting
[…] her eyes betrayed a complicated totality of paradoxical alivenesses.
Sea-water wet their feet, wind tossed their hair, excitement quivered in every fibre of their aliveness.
[…] she's such a perplexing mixture of old New England and modernity, of a fatalism, and an aliveness that fairly vibrates.

Word Forms

Synonyms for aliveness

Depending on context, synonyms include life, animation, liveness, living, animateness.

Antonyms for aliveness

Common opposites include lifelessness, inanimateness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include liveness, animateness, living, animation, life, livingness.

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