Synonyms:
liveliness, animation
Meaning: general activity and motion
Usage examples
The doctor had not realized before the boldness and liveliness of his companion's mind.
This degree of force or liveliness is part of what we ordinarily mean by the intensity of a sensation.
It strikes the mind with varying degrees of force or liveliness according to the varying intensity of the stimulus.
The eel twists, and refuses to be swallowed; so the bird has to reduce its liveliness by rolling up and down in its sharp-edged beak.
I conclude therefore that the test of liveliness, however applicable in ordinary instances, cannot be used to define the differences between sensations and images.
The difference betwixt these consists in the degrees of force and liveliness, with which they strike upon the mind, and make their way into our thought or consciousness.
And in all cases where images, originally recognized as such, gradually pass into hallucinations, there must be just that "force or liveliness" which is supposed to be always absent from images.