Synonyms for liveliness
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
The quality of being lively.
Forms
- Plural
- livelinesses → vivacities, spirits, vigors, exuberances…
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Liveliness of imagination; gayety of heart; animation of countenance; vivacity of gesture or conversation.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Example sentences
- vigor The city came back to life with more vigor.
- verve Her verve stayed with her well into her old age.
- exuberance What exuberance in gesture and tone!
- lightness There's a lightness in my heart after talking with him.
- buoyancy A body with negative buoyancy will sink in water.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| liveliness | steady | |
| vigor | falling | |
| verve | steady | |
| exuberance | rising | |
| vivacity | steady | |
| lightness | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 2 letters
- go1
- 3 letters
- vim1
- 4 letters
- life1, fizz1
- 5 letters
- vigor2, verve1
- 6 letters
- energy3, spirit2, vigour, gaiety
- 7 letters
- avidity
- 8 letters
- activity4, vitality4, buoyancy3, alacrity4, vivacity, piquancy, pertness
- 9 letters
- animation4, lightness2, quickness2, merriment, briskness, peppiness
- 10 letters
- exuberance4
- 12 letters
- animatedness
- 13 letters
- effervescence, sprightliness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (vigor2 = 2 syllables).