PETRIFICATION Antonyms

• the condition of living or the state of being alive

• the property of being able to survive and grow

• quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous

• the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something

• the making of animated cartoons

• general activity and motion

• giving spirit and vivacity

• the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped

• the quality of being adaptable or variable

• the trait of being easily persuaded

• (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

• a progression from simpler to more complex forms

• a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important

• vegetation that has grown

• the gradual beginning or coming forth

• (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)

• something grown or growing

• 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

• a change of position that does not entail a change of location

• the act of changing location from one place to another

• a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something

• a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals

• a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata

• a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end

• an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object

• a euphemism for defecation

• a general tendency to change (as of opinion)

• the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)

• the act of changing the location of something

• the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored

• the act of restoring to a more youthful condition

• bringing again into activity and prominence

• 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