Synonyms:
liveliness, animation
Meaning: general activity and motion
Synonyms:
animation
Meaning: the making of animated cartoons
Synonyms:
vivification, invigoration, animation
Meaning: the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something
Synonyms:
animation, spiritedness, invigoration, brio, vivification
Meaning: quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous
Synonyms:
animation, vitality
Meaning: the property of being able to survive and grow; "the vitality of a seed"
Synonyms:
animation, life, living, aliveness
Meaning: the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"
Usage examples
I struck in with great animation.
Thenceforward to Dover, they talked together with ceaseless animation. The Cantankerous Old Lady was capital company.
The court of Anne of Austria was full of gayety and animation; for, after having gained a victory over the Spaniard, it had just gained another over the people.
"Oh, yes!" replied Caroline, her listless mood changing to animation; anecdotes, or anything of that desultory kind, being far more acceptable to the young lady than lessons.
To make up for it, he talked much, and with animation, to Lady Georgina. They ferreted out friends in common, and were as much surprised at it as people always are at that inevitable experience.
Out there they were almost one family, and they talked from plot to plot with a zest and animation which Mrs. Garland could never have anticipated when she first removed thither after her husband's death.
Each day the same bright British damsel conducted me through, and told her tale, but it was always with animation, and a certain sweet satisfaction in her mission and starched apron that was very charming.
Renee regarded him with fond affection; and certainly his handsome features, lit up as they then were with more than usual fire and animation, seemed formed to excite the innocent admiration with which she gazed on her graceful and intelligent lover.
It was a young lady, the loveliness of whose very striking features was enhanced by the animation of the chase and the glow of the exercise, mounted on a beautiful horse, jet black, unless where he was flecked by spots of the snow-white foam which embossed his bridle.
In America politics are discussed with animation and a varied activity, but they rarely touch those deep passions which are excited whenever the positive interest of a part of the community is impaired: but in the United States the interests of the community are in a most prosperous condition.