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Answer for the clue "Liveliness ", 5 letters:
verve

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Word definitions for verve in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, "special talent in writing, enthusiasm in what pertains to art and literature," from French verve "enthusiasm" (especially pertaining to the arts), in Old French "caprice, odd humor, proverb, saying; messenger's report" (12c.), probably from Gallo-Roman ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Verve may refer to: Verve Energy , a corporation owned by the Government of Western Australia Verve Records , an American jazz record label The Verve , an English rock band Verve (EP) , a 1992 EP by The Verve Verve (R. Stevie Moore album) The Verve Pipe ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 excitement of imagination such as that which animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing 2 artistic energy and enthusiasm 3 vigour, vitality and liveliness

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Verve \Verve\, n. [F.] Excitement of imagination such as animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing; rapture; enthusiasm; spirit; energy.

Usage examples of verve.

He applied his beguiling enticements with the crafty art of a true philanderer and boldly advanced his exploits with unmitigated verve.

Land Rover while Popsy drove with more verve than caution out of Lambourn and along a side road and finally up a bumpy track to open stretches of grassland.

There was a flat, lifeless quality about it that, without the verve of battlefield blood, spoke of tyranny most repellent and egregious, and yet at the same time petty and self-serving.

Hippolyte figuring in the bacchic dance in the midst of a chorus of joyous boon-companions, and thus proving to all eyes by his verve and his capers his complete cure?

She performed five numbers with undimming verve, gathered her full green skirt, and swept off the little stage as bouncily as a gymnast.

The Invigilator, wearing the mysterious contrivance, played himself, though with only such verve as we ordered him to display.

The only thing of value to them was their reputation, their artistic verve, their wit, their whimsy, and the calm dignity with which they welcomed their inevitable fall in darkened coffins into the blood red supergravity well of their dark star.

With much verve, and a true Voltairian spirit, he at first took up a moderate attitude, but being a time server soon discovered that his interest lay in another direction.

He hired out quite the dirtiest and unsafest bicycles in the whole south of England, and conducted the subsequent discussions with astonishing verve.

Bronze-haired Liami, who bounced in and out of beds with the same verve as she gobbled dessert treats on holidays.

She would get out of bed the next morning and complete her callisthenics program with fresh verve.

George was once a singing waiter, accustomed to linking dramaturgy and digestion, and he attacked the dangling nose with verve.

But she had no heart for the women's dance, her rhythms lacked verve, and she drank so little of the ceremonial tea, the effects wore off quickly.

Petty's boisterous verve is great, but she is not quite the riot girl she should have been -- and was clearly capable of playing.