livingness

noun

liv·​ing·​ness

plural -es

: vitality, vigor, vividness

what he likes in nature is perhaps more than anything else the mere sense of livingness

—J. W. Beach

his memory stored up an amazing gallery of faces and figures, and he got these down with supreme livingness

—Sheldon Cheney

Word History

Etymology

living entry 1 + -ness

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