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Definition of Aliveness
1. Noun. The condition of living or the state of being alive. "Life depends on many chemical and physical processes"
Generic synonyms: Being, Beingness, Existence
Specialized synonyms: Eternal Life, Life Eternal, Skin, Endurance, Survival
Attributes: Alive, Live, Dead
Derivative terms: Alive, Alive, Alive, Lifer, Live
2. Noun. The property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life.
Generic synonyms: Physiological Property
Specialized synonyms: Animation, Vitality, Sentience
Attributes: Animate, Inanimate, Non-living, Nonliving
Derivative terms: Alive, Alive, Alive, Animate, Animate, Live
Antonyms: Inanimateness
Definition of Aliveness
1. Noun. The state of being alive; exuberance, intensity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aliveness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Aliveness
Literary usage of Aliveness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Stay Young by Christian Daa Larson (1908)
"is indispensable to the perpetual aliveness of mind. The mind that is constantly
full of joy is always alive, and the mind that is always alive will always ..."
2. The Religions of Mankind by Edmund Davison Soper (1921)
"What Professor Marett feels is that to primitive man nature was characterized by
a kind of aliveness just as he was conscious of a certain aliveness in ..."
3. Environmental Theology by Richard Cartwright Austin (1990)
"All species, and even natural relationships and processes of change, exhibit some
characteristics of aliveness and therefore have some value. ..."
4. An Introduction to a biology and other papers by Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire (1917)
"But there is no difference in the matter of aliveness between the lime and the
iron ; both are of lifeless matter moulded to suit the purpose of the ..."