aliveness
US/əˈlaɪvnəs/
aliveness noun: the state of being alive; exuberance, intensity.
Noun
aliveness (usually uncountable, plural alivenesses)
- The state of being alive; exuberance, intensity.
- the aliveness of the colours in a painting
- […] she's such a perplexing mixture of old New England and modernity, of a fatalism, and an aliveness that fairly vibrates.1917, Winston Churchill, The Dwelling-Place of Light, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company
Examples of aliveness in a sentence
- […] her eyes betrayed a complicated totality of paradoxical alivenesses.1920 September, Jack London, chapter 18, in Hearts of Three, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 231:
- Sea-water wet their feet, wind tossed their hair, excitement quivered in every fibre of their aliveness.1944, Emily Carr, “Beacon Hill”, in The House of All Sorts:
Forms of aliveness
| plural | alivenesses |
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Origin of aliveness
From alive + -ness.
Questions about aliveness
- What does aliveness mean?
- Aliveness means the state of being alive; exuberance, intensity.
- How do you use aliveness in a sentence?
- […] her eyes betrayed a complicated totality of paradoxical alivenesses.
- What part of speech is aliveness?
- Aliveness is a noun.
- How do you pronounce aliveness?
- Aliveness is pronounced /əˈlaɪvnəs/ (US).
- What is the plural of aliveness?
- The plural of aliveness is alivenesses.
Words near aliveness in the dictionary
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