LIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liveness mean? 

• LIVENESS (noun)
  The noun LIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life

  Familiarity information: LIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

aliveness; animateness; liveness

Hypernyms ("liveness" is a kind of...):

physiological property (a property having to do with the functioning of the body)

Attribute:

animate (endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life)

inanimate; non-living; nonliving (not endowed with life)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "liveness"):

animation; vitality (the property of being able to survive and grow)

sentience (the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness)

Derivation:

live (possessing life)