aliveness

Definition

The state of being alive; exuberance, intensity.

Etymology

From alive + -ness.

Example Sentences

• "the aliveness of the colours in a painting"
• "[…] she's such a perplexing mixture of old New England and modernity, of a fatalism, and an aliveness that fairly vibrates."
• "[…] her eyes betrayed a complicated totality of paradoxical alivenesses."