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ANIMATENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life
Synonyms:
aliveness; animateness; liveness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
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)
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)
Derivation:
animate (endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness)
animate (endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life)
