ANIMATENESSES Synonyms

• the act of arousing

• a state of heightened physiological activity

• awakening from sleep

• mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse

• the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977

• (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs

• forceful exertion

• enterprising or ambitious drive

• an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)

• a healthy capacity for vigorous activity

• any source of usable power

• a characteristic state or mode of living

• the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities

• the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living

• the condition of living or the state of being alive

• the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)

• the period between birth and the present time

• the period from the present until death

• a living person

• animation and energy in action or expression

• living things collectively

• the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones

• an account of the series of events making up a person's life

• a motive for living

• a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives

• general activity and motion

• animation and energy in action or expression

• the vital principle or animating force within living things

• the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

• a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character

• any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings

• the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection)

• the intended meaning of a communication

• animation and energy in action or expression

• an inclination or tendency of a certain kind

• infuse with spirit

• animation and energy in action or expression

• forceful exertion

• active strength of body or mind

• an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)

• an energetic style

• a healthy capacity for vigorous activity

• (biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms

• the property of being able to survive and grow

• the condition of living or the state of being alive

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

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