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US
/ˈɫaɪvɫinəs/
]
[ UK /lˈaɪvlɪnəs/ ]
[ UK /lˈaɪvlɪnəs/ ]
NOUN
- general activity and motion
-
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
- 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 Doone
- The girl impressed her friends with liveliness and humor.
- The parakeet is a lovely sight, with its powdery smooth green plumage and its arrow-straight flight and general liveliness - but it competes too well with native birds, and as with the Canada goose, where the parakeets move in, the locals tend to move out. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
- What makes Antigua the hub of Central American tourism is the liveliness of its unique mixture of Mayan Indian and Latino heritage.
- Both artists succeed in conveying the sense of liveliness and movement found in popular forms of entertainment.
- Her hair was unruly and sticking out at all ends and though she was nearing the end of her life her eyes shone with youth and liveliness.
- He had a liveliness of expression that was pleasing.
- Tristram Shandy, for instance, is in multifarious ways a marvellous book, but it is written in a tone of such constant high-pitched zaniness, such deliberate "liveliness", that one finds oneself screaming at it to calm down a bit. Comedy in Literature
- He wants to incorporate the vigour and liveliness of his drawings into his paintings.
- One may walk in an old district where a curious feeling of liveliness still express itself and end up in the middle of a no-man's-land where wreckages , ruins, ambulant salesmen and workers coexist.