1. The condition of living or the state of being alive
   - animation, life, living 
2. The property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life
   - animateness, liveness

Derived forms: alivenesses

See also: alive, animate, dead, inanimate, live, nonliving, non-living

Type of: being, beingness, existence, physiological property

• class Eumycetes
• class feeling
• class fellow
• class Filicinae
• class Filicopsida
• class Flagellata
• class Gasteromycetes
• class Gasteropoda
• class Gastromycetes
• class Gastropoda
• class Ginkgophytina
• class Ginkgopsida
• class Gnetopsida
• class Gymnospermae
• class Hemiascomycetes
• class Hepaticae
• class Hepaticopsida
• class Heterokontae
• class Hexapoda
• class Hirudinea
• class Holothuroidea
• class Hyalospongiae
• class Hydrozoa
• class Hymenomycetes
• class Insecta