Live"li*ness, n. [From Lively.]
1. The quality or state of being lively or
animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the
liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age.
B. Jonson.
2. An appearance of life, animation, or
spirit; as, the liveliness of the eye or the countenance in a
portrait.
3. Briskness; activity; effervescence, as of
liquors.
Syn. -- Sprightliness; gayety; animation; vivacity;
smartness; briskness; activity. -- Liveliness, Gayety,
Animation, Vivacity. Liveliness is an habitual
feeling of life and interest; gayety refers more to a
temporary excitement of the animal spirits; animation implies
a warmth of emotion and a corresponding vividness of expressing it,
awakened by the presence of something which strongly affects the
mind; vivacity is a feeling between liveliness and animation,
having the permanency of the one, and, to some extent, the warmth of
the other. Liveliness of imagination; gayety of heart;
animation of countenance; vivacity of gesture or
conversation.
