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ANIMATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
General activity and motion
Synonyms:
animation; liveliness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("animation" is a kind of...):
activity (any specific behavior)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The making of animated cartoons
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("animation" is a kind of...):
cinematography; filming; motion-picture photography (the act of making a film)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The activity of giving vitality and vigour to something
Synonyms:
animation; invigoration; vivification
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("animation" is a kind of...):
activating; activation; energizing (the activity of causing to have energy and be active)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous
Synonyms:
animation; brio; invigoration; spiritedness; vivification
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("animation" is a kind of...):
activeness; activity (the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically)
Attribute:
spirited (displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness)
spiritless (lacking ardor or vigor or energy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "animation"):
chirpiness (cheerful and lively)
life; liveliness; spirit; sprightliness (animation and energy in action or expression)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The property of being able to survive and grow
Example:
the vitality of a seed
Synonyms:
animation; vitality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("animation" is a kind of...):
aliveness; animateness; liveness (the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life)
Attribute:
dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)
Sense 6
Meaning:
The condition of living or the state of being alive
Example:
life depends on many chemical and physical processes
Synonyms:
aliveness; animation; life; living
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("animation" is a kind of...):
being; beingness; existence; face of the earth (the state or fact of existing)
Attribute:
alive; live (possessing life)
dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "animation"):
eternal life; life eternal (life without beginning or end)
skin (a person's skin regarded as their life)
endurance; survival (a state of surviving; remaining alive)
Context examples:
And it was spoken with a sort of sighing animation, which had a vast deal of the lover.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
In an instant a scene of the wildest animation had set in.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He seemed to have been watching the clock as well as I, for it was hardly six before he began to talk with the same feverish animation as before.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Oh that they would!" cried Marianne, her eyes sparkling with animation, and her cheeks glowing with the delight of such imaginary happiness.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The evening conversation, when they were all assembled, had lost much of its animation, and almost all its sense by the absence of Jane and Elizabeth.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I know you very well; you have so much animation, which is exactly what Miss Andrews wants, for I must confess there is something amazingly insipid about her.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
There was such an interest, such an animation, such a spirit diffused.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She had been all animation with the game, and irritated pride did not lower the expression of her haughty lineaments.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mary spoke with animation of their meeting with, or rather missing, Mr Elliot so extraordinarily.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
