aliveness
English
Etymology
alive + -ness
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈlaɪvnəs/
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun
aliveness (usually uncountable, plural alivenesses)
- The state of being alive; exuberance, intensity.
- 1917, Winston Churchill, The Dwelling-Place of Light:
- ... she's such a perplexing mixture of old New England and modernity, of a fatalism, and an aliveness that fairly vibrates.
- 1920, Jack London, Hearts of Three, New York: Macmillan, Chapter 18, p. 231,
- […] her eyes betrayed a complicated totality of paradoxical alivenesses.
- 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, "Beacon Hill,"
- Sea-water wet their feet, wind tossed their hair, excitement quivered in every fibre of their aliveness.
- the aliveness of the colours in a painting
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Anagrams
- leaviness, vaselines