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ANIMATENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does animateness mean? 

ANIMATENESS (noun)
  The noun ANIMATENESS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ANIMATENESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ANIMATENESS (noun)


Sense 1

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 ("animateness" 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 "animateness"):

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

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

Antonym:

inanimateness (not having life)

Derivation:

animate (endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness)

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


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