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aliveness|əˈlaɪvnɪs|
[f. alive a. + -ness.]
The quality of being alive or full of vigour. Also, sensitiveness to (one's surroundings, etc.).
a1866J. Grote Moral Ideals (1876) 322 This would be the real fountain of youth, supposing..there were energy to maintain the perpetual aliveness. 1866Mrs. Carlyle in T. W. Reid Life Ld. Houghton (1891) II. xv. 146 A woman..going about in society alive and well. To be sure, both the aliveness and the wellness ‘may be strongly doubted’, as they say in Edinburgh. 1892Independent (U.S.) 7 Oct. 35/1 Aliveness, if we may use such a phrase, to the spirit of the age. 1921J. Wood in L. S. Hunter John Hunter ii. 18 He had all Dawson's aliveness to the world in which he lived. |