LIVELINESSES
Noun
livelinesses
plural of liveliness
Source: Wiktionary
LIVELINESS
Live"li*ness, n. Etym: [From Lively.]
1. The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness;
vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of youth, contrasted
with the gravity of age. B. Jonson.
2. An appearance of life, animation, or spirit; as, the liveliness of
the eye or the countenance in a portrait.
3. Briskness; activity; effervescence, as of liquors.
Syn.
– Sprightliness; gayety; animation; vivacity; smartness; briskness;
activity.
– Liveliness, Gayety, Animation, Vivacity. Liveliness is an
habitual feeling of life and interest; gayety refers more to a
temporary excitement of the animal spirits; animation implies a
warmth of emotion and a corresponding vividness of expressing it,
awakened by the presence of something which strongly affects the
mind; vivacity is a feeling between liveliness and animation, having
the permanency of the one, and, to some extent, the warmth of the
other. Liveliness of imagination; gayety of heart; animation of
countenance; vivacity of gesture or conversation.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition