vivacity
Syllables: vi·va·ci·ty/vɪˈvæsɪti/
vivacity noun: the quality or state of being vivacious.
Noun
vivacity (countable and uncountable, plural vivacities)
- The quality or state of being vivacious.
- But reposed natures may do well in youth. […] On the other side, heat and vivacity in age, is an excellent composition for business.1612, Francis Bacon, “Of Youth and Age”, in Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
- We find by experience, that when any impression has been present with the mind, it again makes its appearance there as an idea; and this it may do after two different ways: either when in its new appearance it retains a considerable degree of its first vivacity, and is somewhat intermediate betwixt...1738, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part I, Section III. Of the Ideas of the Memory and the Imagination
- Synonyms:
- liveliness, vivaciousness
vivacity meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
vivacity in Hindi
- vivacity, liveliness
- चुलबुल culbul
vivacity in Tamil
- கிளர்ச்சியுடைமை
vivacity in Marathi
- vivacity, liveliness, vigour
- चैतन्य caitanya
vivacity in Urdu
- بشاشت, گرما گرمی, جوش, کردار کی جولانی
More languagesFewer languages
- vivacity in Malayalam
- ഊർജ്ജസ്വലത
Examples of vivacity in a sentence
- The one entertained me with her vivacity when I was gay, the other with her sense when I was serious.1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 1, in The Vicar of Wakefield:
- Some secret sorrow, or the brooding spirit of some moody passion, had quenched the light and ingenuous vivacity of youth in a countenance singularly fitted to display both […]1819, Walter Scott, chapter 5, in The Bride of Lammermoor:
Synonyms of vivacity
Forms of vivacity
| plural | vivacities |
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Origin of vivacity
From Latin vīvācitās (whence -acity).
Questions about vivacity
- What does vivacity mean?
- Vivacity means the quality or state of being vivacious.
- What is vivacity in Hindi?
- Vivacity in Hindi is चुलबुल (culbul). See Vivacity meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use vivacity in a sentence?
- The one entertained me with her vivacity when I was gay, the other with her sense when I was serious.
- What part of speech is vivacity?
- Vivacity is a noun.
- How do you pronounce vivacity?
- Vivacity is pronounced /vɪˈvæsɪti/.
- What is the plural of vivacity?
- The plural of vivacity is vivacities.
Words near vivacity in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: vivacity (page history and authors); चुलबुल (Hindi) (page history and authors); vivacity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); चैतन्य (Marathi) (page history and authors); vivacity (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vivacity (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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