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n. - General activity and motion; Animation and energy in action or expression.

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  • Shall I call the liveliness of this day a gale of the Spirit, or was all natural?
  • October "liveliness" was increasing all round, and mutual bombardments were growing more intense.
  • The kind of liveliness, however, caused by the presence of seven or eight hundred students, is not always of the most agreeable character.
  • The 'liveliness' of such rapid measures is thus a resultant of several factors.
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