ALIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aliveness mean? 

• ALIVENESS (noun)
  The noun ALIVENESS has 2 senses:

1. the condition of living or the state of being alive

2. the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life

  Familiarity information: ALIVENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The condition of living or the state of being alive

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

aliveness; animation; life; living

Context example:

life depends on many chemical and physical processes

Hypernyms ("aliveness" is a kind of...):

being; beingness; existence; face of the earth (the state or fact of existing)

Attribute:

alive; live (possessing life)

dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aliveness"):

eternal life; life eternal (life without beginning or end)

skin (a person's skin regarded as their life)

endurance; survival (a state of surviving; remaining alive)

Derivation:

alive (mentally perceptive and responsive)

alive (in operation)

alive ((followed by 'to' or 'of') aware of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

aliveness; animateness; liveness

Hypernyms ("aliveness" is a kind of...):

physiological property (a property having to do with the functioning of the body)

Attribute:

animate (endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life)

inanimate; non-living; nonliving (not endowed with life)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aliveness"):

animation; vitality (the property of being able to survive and grow)

sentience (the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness)

Derivation:

alive (possessing life)

alive (having life or vigor or spirit)

alive ((often followed by 'with') full of life and spirit)