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aliveness

noun
/əˈlaɪvnəs/US

Etymology

From alive + -ness.

  1. inherited from on līfe — “alive”
  2. inherited from alive
  3. suffixed as aliveness — “alive + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state of being alive

    The state of being alive; exuberance, intensity.

    • the aliveness of the colours in a painting
    • […] she's such a perplexing mixture of old New England and modernity, of a fatalism, and an aliveness that fairly vibrates.
    • […] her eyes betrayed a complicated totality of paradoxical alivenesses.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA