Animation

Quick meaning: Animation is a noun meaning The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.

Meaning

The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.

More Meanings

1. The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness
2. The condition of being animate or alive.
3. (linguistics) conversion from the inanimate to animate grammatical category
4. Activities offered by a holiday resort encompassing activities that include movement, joy, leisure and spectacle, such as games, sports, shows, events, etc.
5. (animation, in the sense of a cartoon) A sequence of still drawings or inanimate objects displayed in rapid succession to create the illusion of movement in motion pictures or computer graphics; the object (film, computer game, etc.) produced

Example Sentences

He recited the story with great animation.

[…] by the animation of the same soul quickening that whole frame.

Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I possess of animation.

"The constraints are not so hard and fast that exceptional sentences do not occur. In particular animation and disanimation can temporarily suspend the system."

Word Forms

• animations

Synonyms for animation

Depending on context, synonyms include vitalization, vivification, enlivenment, airiness, ardor, buoyancy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include invigoration, vivification, living, vitality, liveliness, aliveness.

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