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ANIMATENESS

• ANIMATENESS (noun)
The noun ANIMATENESS has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: ANIMATENESS used as a noun is very rare.

• ANIMATENESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

animateness; liveness; aliveness

Hypernyms ("animateness" is a kind of...):

physiological property (a property having to do with the functioning of the body)

Attribute:

animate (endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life)

dead; inanimate; non-living; nonliving (not endowed with life)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "animateness"):

animation; vitality (the property of being able to survive and grow)

sentience (the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness)

Antonym:

inanimateness (not having life)

"Don't cut off your nose to spite your face."
(English proverb)
"Who does not work, is heavy to the earth."
(Albanian proverb)
"Give me long life and throw me in the sea."
(Arabic proverb)
"From children and drunks will you hear the truth."
(Danish proverb)

Useful links:
physiological property definition
Pronunciation of animate
dead definition
Definition of nonliving
vitality definition

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