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An animation of a collapsing building.
See also: Animation
English
Etymology
From Latin animatio, from animare, equivalent to animate + -ion.
Pronunciation
Noun
animation (countable and uncountable, plural animations)
- The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.
- 1647, Joseph Hall, Christ Mysticall; or the blessed union of Christ and his Members, as edited and reprinted in Josiah Pratt (editor), The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D., Volume 8, C. Wittingham (1808), page 217:
- by the animation of the same soul quickening that whole frame.
- 1647, Joseph Hall, Christ Mysticall; or the blessed union of Christ and his Members, as edited and reprinted in Josiah Pratt (editor), The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D., Volume 8, C. Wittingham (1808), page 217:
- (animation, in the sense of a cartoon) A sequence of still drawings or inanimate objects displayed in rapid succession to create the illusion of movement in motion pictures or computer graphics; the object (film, computer game, etc.) produced
- The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness
- He recited the story with great animation.
- The condition of being animate or alive.
- 1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC:
- Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I possess of animation.
- (linguistics) conversion from the inanimate to animate grammatical category
- 1992, Samuel E. Martin, A Reference Grammar of Korean, page 291:
- "The constraints are not so hard and fast that exceptional sentences do not occur. In particular animation and disanimation can temporarily suspend the system."
- Activities offered by a holiday resort encompassing activities that include movement, joy, leisure and spectacle, such as games, sports, shows, events, etc.
Synonyms
- (the act of breathing life into something): vitalization, vivification, enlivenment
- (the state of being lively): airiness, ardor, buoyancy, earnestness, energy, enthusiasm, liveliness, promptitude, spirit, sprightliness, vivacity
- (the condition of being alive): life
Derived terms
- animalcule
- animalesque
- animalhood
- animalian
- animalicide
- animalish
- animalism
- animalivore
- animalivorous
- animalize
- animalkind
- animally
- animalness
- animaloid
- animation meme
- antianimal
- companimal
- deanimation
- disanimation
- humanimal
- interanimal
- intraanimal
- koranimal
- microanimal
- multianimal
- nonanimal
- planimal
- reanimation
- semianimal
- superanimal
- suspended animation
- vegetoanimal
- vegeto-mineral
- wereanimal
Descendants
- → Japanese: アニメーション (animēshon)
Translations
the act of animating
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causing images to appear to move
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin animātiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
animation f (plural animations)
Further reading
- “animation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Swedish
Noun
animation c
Declension
| Declension of animation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | animation | animationen | animationer | animationerna |
| Genitive | animations | animationens | animationers | animationernas |