vivacity

[ UK /vɪvˈæsɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. characterized by high spirits and animation
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How To Use vivacity In A Sentence

  • Her colouring needed to be more definite, her vivacity more pronounced. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
  • She conducts with gusto and vivacity, and her orchestral forces are unusually strong.
  • What think you of callas -- their frozen calm kindled by the ruddy flush of azaleas, and their superb stateliness opposed by the flexile vivacity of the feathery willow acacia? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • He had a slight lisp in his pleasant voice, and ran on in rapid talk for an hour, with a shy reluctance to talk about his own works, but with the most superabounding vivacity I have ever met with in any man. Recollections of a Long Life
  • In his aspect there was a certain dryness, and, altogether, his vivacity, his ceaselessness, and a kind of equability of tone in his voice, reminded me of what Homer says concerning the old men around Priam, above the gate of Troy, how they "chirped like cicalas on a summer day. Adventures Among Books
  • Not thus he appeared -- assuredly not _thus_ -- in the vivacity of his waking hours. Selections from Poe
  • In an old court of the old town lived a certain elderly personage, perhaps sixty, or thereabouts; he was rather tall, and something of a robust make, with a countenance in which bluffness was singularly blended with vivacity and grimace; and with a complexion which would have been ruddy, but for a yellow hue which rather predominated. Lavengro
  • In a few days, our adventurer recovered his vigour, complexion, and vivacity; he mingled again in the diversions and parties of the place; and he received, in a little time, the money he had lent upon bottomry, which, together with the interest, amounted to upwards of eleven hundred pounds. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
  • More verve and vivacity, but this time with a Victorian backdrop.
  • You know how to go windsurfing on a long board, you sail in stronger and stronger winds, its high time to experience the acceleration and vivacity of a short board… a funboard.
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