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Definition of Livingness
1. n. The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.
Definition of Livingness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigour; animation. ¹
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Definition of Livingness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Livingness
Literary usage of Livingness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The System of Animate Nature: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the by John Arthur Thomson (1920)
"... OF livingness. § 1. Living and Not-living. § 2. The Essential Characteristics
of Living Organisms. § 3. Persistence of a Complex Specific Metabolism and ..."
2. The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science by Thomas Troward (1909)
"be found by comparing one degree of livingness with another. There is, of course,
one sense in which the quality of livingness does not admit of degrees; ..."
3. Man and the Cosmos: An Introduction to Metaphysics by Joseph Alexander Leighton (1922)
"livingness is the most significant characteristic of reality ... livingness, in
turn, is the basis for the development of conscious mind. ..."
4. Autology, Study Thyself: And Autopathy, Cure Thyself by Edmond Raymond Moras (1912)
"I know what constitutes the chemical action of livingness in the phosphates and
carbonates of the soil—so to that degree I know what constitutes the ..."
5. Exploratio Philosophica by John Grote (1900)
"His ' soul' is life,' livingness,' the living principle, ... That is, the
investigation is about the being or essence of the soul or livingness, ..."
6. Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later: Both by the Original Discoverer of the by Samuel Butler (1920)
"What completer proof can we have that livingness consists in deed rather than in
consciousness of deed? "The foregoing remarks are not intended to apply so ..."
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