Syn. -- Sprightliness; gayety; animation; vivacity; smartness;
briskness; activity. -- Liveliness, Gayety, Animation, Vivacity.
Liveliness is an habitual feeling of life and interest; gayety refers
more to a temporary excitement of the animal spirits; animation implies
a warmth of emotion and a corresponding vividness of expressing it,
awakened by the presence of something which strongly affects the mind;
vivacity is a feeling between liveliness and animation, having the
permanency of the one, and, to some extent, the warmth of the other.
Liveliness of imagination; gayety of heart; animation of countenance;
vivacity of gesture or conversation.
Live"lode` (?), n. [See 1st Livelihood.] Course of life; means of
support; livelihood. [Obs.]
Live"long` (?), a. [For lifelong. Cf. Lifelong.] 1. Whole; entire; long
in passing; -- used of time, as day or night, in adverbial phrases, and
usually with a sense of tediousness.
The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night.
Shak.
How could she sit the livelong day, Yet never ask us once to play?
Swift.