2. An appearance of life, animation, or spirit; as, the
liveliness of the eye or the countenance in a portrait.
3. Briskness; activity; effervescence, as of liquors.
Syn: Sprightliness; gayety; animation; vivacity; smartness;
briskness; activity. -- {Liveliness}, {Gayety},
{Animation}, {Vivacity}. Liveliness is an habitual
feeling of life and interest; gayety refers more to a
temporary excitement of the animal spirits; animation
implies a warmth of emotion and a corresponding
vividness of expressing it, awakened by the presence of
something which strongly affects the mind; vivacity is a
feeling between liveliness and animation, having the
permanency of the one, and, to some extent, the warmth
of the other. Liveliness of imagination; gayety of
heart; animation of countenance; vivacity of gesture or
conversation.