liveliness

/ˈlaɪvlinɪs/

/ˈlaɪvlinɛs/

Other forms: livelinesses

Liveliness is a spirited or energetic quality. The liveliness of a kindergarten class might be a little overwhelming to a brand-new teacher.

Anyone or anything with liveliness is full of excitement, activity and energy. If you're in search of liveliness on a Friday night, you're more likely to find it at a party or a rock concert than at a sad movie or a solemn poetry reading. We can trace the noun liveliness back to the word life. So if you meet someone who's full of life, its their liveliness that you're noticing.

Definitions of liveliness

1. noun

   general activity and motion
   synonyms: animation

   type of:

   activity

   any specific behavior
2. noun

   animation and energy in action or expression
   synonyms: life, spirit, sprightliness

   types:

   pertness

   quality of being lively and confident

   airiness, delicacy

   lightness in movement or manner

   alacrity, briskness, smartness

   liveliness and eagerness

   energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim

   an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)

   elan

   enthusiastic and assured vigor and liveliness

   esprit

   liveliness of mind or spirit

   breeziness, jauntiness

   a breezy liveliness

   buoyancy, effervescence, irrepressibility

   irrepressible liveliness and good spirit

   high-spiritedness

   exuberant liveliness

   ebullience, enthusiasm, exuberance

   eager enjoyment or approval

   ginger, pep, peppiness

   liveliness and energy

   verve, vitality

   an energetic style

   vivacity

   high spirits and animation

   mettlesomeness

   courageous high-spiritedness

   lyricism

   unrestrained and exaggerated enthusiasm

   madness, rabidity, rabidness

   unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm

   type of:

   animation, brio, invigoration, spiritedness, vivification

   quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous