animateness

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Noun
  • Most of the rooms overlook the pool and bar, so come here for the walking-distance-to-everything location and liveliness more than a quiet beach escape.
    Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2026
  • With the house emptied of living (and costumed) guests, its furnishings, in all their liveliness, appear only to mask an unnatural torpor.
    Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 2 May 2026
Noun
  • Changes to school lunches These school nutrition directors were surveyed in October 2025, and since then, additional factors may threaten the robustness of school lunch programs.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Textile Exchange has published the first installment in a series of seven Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies aimed at improving the robustness and quality of environmental impact data for raw material production across the apparel, fashion and textile industries.
    Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Javier Ignacio is both soothing and snippy as the Beast’s confidante Cogsworth, a clock, while Cameron Monroe Thomas adds vivacity to the dour castle as the feather duster Babette.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Foxx — whose extensive auditions for the role included a piano session with Charles himself — brought vivacity to an otherwise standard biopic chronicling the singer's tumultuous life.
    Devan Coggan, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Trinidad and Tobago conducts significant oil and gas exploration activity both on land and in shallow waters, and is one of the Caribbean’s largest producers, according to official information from Trinidad’s Ministry of Energy.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2026
  • Don’t miss other free activities like mocktail classes and horticultural tours of the extensive gardens.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 May 2026
Noun
  • Here, this translates as an exuberance of bread, meat and dairy, rich and fortifying.
    Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • But McGee’s stories have always been charming in their maximalist exuberance and their nationalist specificity.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 May 2026
Noun
  • The former's post-apocalyptic cities were nicely sun-scorched and detailed, while the latter's gaudy anime pirates popped with vibrancy.
    Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Next, the team used a color analysis tool to measure the number of unique colors in each image, and calculated an overall vibrancy score from those findings.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Despite the heavy nature of the film, there’s an odd streak of peppiness to some of its proceedings.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Animateness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/animateness. Accessed 11 May. 2026.

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