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
- alivenesses
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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