Crossword clues for aliveness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
aliveness \aliveness\ n.
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the condition of living or the state of being alive.
Syn: animation, life, living
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having animal life as distinguished from plant life. full of life
Syn: animateness, liveness [WordNet 1.5] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1853, from alive + -ness.
Wiktionary
n. The state of being alive; exuberance, intensity.
WordNet
n. the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes" [syn: animation, life, living]
having animal life as distinguished from plant life; "full of life" [syn: animateness, liveness] [ant: inanimateness]
Wikipedia
Aliveness, also referred to as alive training describes martial arts training methods that are spontaneous, non-scripted, and dynamic. Alive training is performed with the intent to challenge or defeat rather than to demonstrate. Aliveness has also been defined in relation to martial arts techniques as an evaluation of combat effectiveness.
Usage examples of "aliveness".
Most of all I hated the rush of intense aliveness which pumped through me like a drug whenever I speared an innocent animal and I saw the spurting of his blood as drink that would soon quicken my own.
The degree of my aliveness is represented by a wave function which contains probabilities of life and death.
Only their act of observing my state of being will cause my aliveness or deadness to become manifest.
There were lesbian customers who dreamed of women with penises, not male penises but womanly erections, possessing a sensitivity and aliveness no dildo ever had.
The Moberly woman thought the scenery unnatural and lifeless, one-dimensional, no breeze, no light and shade, no sense of aliveness.