LIVELINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liveliness mean? 

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

1. general activity and motion

2. animation and energy in action or expression

  Familiarity information: LIVELINESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIVELINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

General activity and motion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

animation; liveliness

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

activity (any specific behavior)

Derivation:

lively (filled with events or activity)

lively (full of life and energy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Animation and energy in action or expression

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

life; liveliness; spirit; sprightliness

Context example:

it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it

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

animation; brio; invigoration; spiritedness; vivification (quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous)

Attribute:

lively (full of life and energy)

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

pertness (quality of being lively and confident)

airiness; delicacy (lightness in movement or manner)

alacrity; briskness; smartness (liveliness and eagerness)

energy; muscularity; vigor; vigour; vim (an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing))

elan (enthusiastic and assured vigor and liveliness)

esprit (liveliness of mind or spirit)

breeziness; jauntiness (a breezy liveliness)

buoyancy; irrepressibility (irrepressible liveliness and good spirit)

high-spiritedness (exuberant liveliness)

ebullience; enthusiasm; exuberance (overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval)

ginger; pep; peppiness (liveliness and energy)

Derivation:

lively (full of spirit; full of life)

lively (elastic; rebounds readily)

lively (quick and energetic)

lively (full of zest or vigor)

 Context examples 

He would enjoy her liveliness and she has talents to value his powers.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

His understanding and opinions all please me; he wants nothing but a little more liveliness, and that, if he marry prudently, his wife may teach him.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

My liveliness and your solidity would produce perfection.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Their gentleness, their genuine attention to other people, and their manly unstudied simplicity is much more accordant with her real disposition, than the liveliness—often artificial, and often ill-timed of the other.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He had been much in London, and had more liveliness and gallantry than Edmund, and must, therefore, be preferred; and, indeed, his being the eldest was another strong claim.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Certainly his being at Randalls had given great spirit to the last two weeks—indescribable spirit; the idea, the expectation of seeing him which every morning had brought, the assurance of his attentions, his liveliness, his manners!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She had fully proposed being engaged by Mr. Wickham for those very dances; and to have Mr. Collins instead! her liveliness had never been worse timed.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It did not suit his sense of propriety, and he was silenced, till induced by further smiles and liveliness to put the matter by for the present.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The Frank Churchill so long talked of, so high in interest, was actually before her—he was presented to her, and she did not think too much had been said in his praise; he was a very good looking young man; height, air, address, all were unexceptionable, and his countenance had a great deal of the spirit and liveliness of his father's; he looked quick and sensible.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)