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animateness

noun

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

• Syn: ↑aliveness, ↑liveness

• Ant: ↑inanimateness

• Derivationally related forms: ↑live (for: ↑liveness), ↑alive (for: ↑aliveness), ↑animate

• Hypernyms: ↑physiological property

• Hyponyms: ↑animation, ↑vitality, ↑sentience

• Attrubites: ↑animate, ↑inanimate, ↑nonliving, ↑non-living

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noun

see animate I

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ˈanimateness ? Obs.^—0

[f. animate a. + -ness.]

‘The state of being animated.’ J.

in Bailey; whence in Johnson.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.