aliveness

Definitions of aliveness
  1. noun
    the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life
    synonyms: animateness, liveness
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    animation, vitality
    the property of being able to survive and grow
    sentience
    the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
    type of:
    physiological property
    a property having to do with the functioning of the body
  2. noun
    the condition of living or the state of being alive
    synonyms: animation, life, living
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    eternal life, life eternal
    life without beginning or end
    skin
    a person's skin regarded as their life
    endurance, survival
    a state of surviving; remaining alive
    subsistence
    a means of surviving
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    being, beingness, existence
    the state or fact of existing
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