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aliveness en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /əˈlaɪvnəs/ (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-der. Proto-Germanic *an Proto-West Germanic *ana Old English on Proto-Indo-European *leyp- Proto-Germanic *lībanąder. Proto-Germanic *lībą Proto-West Germanic *līb Old English līfder. Old English līfe Old English on līfe Middle English alyve English alive Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English aliveness From alive + -ness.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The state of being alive; exuberance, intensity.
   • […] she's such a perplexing mixture of old New England and modernity, of a fatalism, and an aliveness that fairly vibrates. 1917, Winston Churchill, The Dwelling-Place of Light, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company:
   • the aliveness of the colours in a painting
   • Sea-water wet their feet, wind tossed their hair, excitement quivered in every fibre of their aliveness. 1944, Emily Carr, “Beacon Hill”, in The House of All Sorts:
   • […] her eyes betrayed a complicated totality of paradoxical alivenesses. 1920 September, Jack London, chapter 18, in Hearts of Three, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 231:

Forms

Translations (1)

es vivencia (state)