Antonyms for liveliness

Grammar : Noun

Spell : lahyv-lee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈlaɪv li

Definition of liveliness

Origin : Old English liflic "living, existing," literally "life-like;" from life + -ly (2). Sense of "active, energetic" developed by early 13c., from notion "full of life."

noun animation
noun spirit

Example sentences :

"You 'tend to your own troubles," returned the other, with an imitation of liveliness.
Extract from : « The Gentleman From Indiana » by Booth Tarkington

Of these, the Comte d'Artois was the only one who, from youth and liveliness of character, thoroughly sympathised with his sister.
Extract from : « The Secret Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, Complete » by Madame du Hausset, an "Unknown English Girl" and the Princess Lamballe

"You come just in time to give him a scolding," he said, with an affectation of liveliness.
Extract from : « The Downfall » by Emile Zola

Yet there is little of the liveliness of a game in their mode of treating the subject.
Extract from : « Laws » by Plato

Both were proofs that Erasmus had lost nothing of his liveliness and wit.
Extract from : « Erasmus and the Age of Reformation » by Johan Huizinga

Only Old Brooks could rouse the Cornal to some spirit of liveliness.
Extract from : « Gilian The Dreamer » by Neil Munro

Her letter had seemed to have a liveliness derived from other thoughts than thoughts of him.
Extract from : « A Pair of Blue Eyes » by Thomas Hardy

The picture among the shipping was one of extreme activity and liveliness.
Extract from : « The Two Admirals » by J. Fenimore Cooper

Lively it was; but its liveliness was not all thievery and violence.
Extract from : « Roosevelt in the Bad Lands » by H. Hagedorn.

No longer could he admire her liveliness; he could not even see that she was good-looking now.
Extract from : « The Tinted Venus » by F. Anstey

Synonyms for liveliness

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