aliveness

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English

Etymology

From alive +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /əˈlaɪvnəs/
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Noun

aliveness (usually uncountable, plural alivenesses)

The state of being alive; exuberance, intensity.
the aliveness of the colours in a painting
- 1917, Winston Churchill, The Dwelling-Place of Light, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company:
  […] she's such a perplexing mixture of old New England and modernity, of a fatalism, and an aliveness that fairly vibrates.
- 1920 September, Jack London, chapter 18, in Hearts of Three, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 231:
  […] her eyes betrayed a complicated totality of paradoxical alivenesses.
- 1944, Emily Carr, “Beacon Hill”, in The House of All Sorts:
  Sea-water wet their feet, wind tossed their hair, excitement quivered in every fibre of their aliveness.

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vaselines, leaviness, vealiness

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