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viˈvaciousness
[f. vivacious a. + -ness.]
1. Tenacity of life; longevity. rare.
a1661Fuller Worthies, Devon. i. (1662) 248 Such their Fleetnesse, they will outrun many Horses; Vivaciousnesse, they out live most men. 1806Symmons Life Milton (1810) 433 The shameless vivaciousness with which it refused to remit its grasp of political existence. 1849Southey's Comm.-pl. Bk II. 605 Vivaciousness of the Acacia Tree.
2. Vivacity of manner or speech; liveliness, sprightliness.
1727Bailey (vol. II), Liveliness, vivaciousness, &c. 1807S. Turner Hist. Anglo-Sax. (ed. 2) iv. v. 279 There is a vivaciousness in his despair, which no danger can intimidate. 1872J. C. Jeaffreson Woman in Spite of Herself i. v, He had achieved a reputation for humour and vivaciousness. 1882J. Hawthorne Fort. Fool i. xix, One whose equanimity is not to be upset by the sallies of feminine vivaciousness. |