Antonyms for livelinesslive·li·ness

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1. liveliness

   Liveliness and sprightliness are pleasant and commendable; smartness is a limited and showy acuteness or shrewdness, usually with unfavorable suggestion; pertness and sauciness are these qualities overdone, and regardless of the respect due to superiors. Impertinence and impudence may be gross and stupid; pertness and sauciness are always vivid and keen. Compare IMPUDENCE.

   Antonyms:
   bashfulness, demureness, diffidence, humility, modesty, shyness

   Synonyms:
   boldness, briskness, flippancy, forwardness, impertinence, impudence, pertness, sauciness, smartness, sprightliness

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. liveliness, animationnoun

   general activity and motion

   Synonyms:
   sprightliness, spiritedness, vivification, brio, vitality, life, spirit, living, invigoration, aliveness, animation

2. liveliness, life, spirit, sprightlinessnoun

   animation and energy in action or expression

   "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it"

   Synonyms:
   smell, flavour, disembodied spirit, animation, life-time, purport, life, feeling, flavor, sprightliness, lifespan, spirit, life sentence, feel, emotional state, life history, look, aliveness, intent, living, lifetime, biography, tone, heart, life story

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1. livelinessnoun

   Synonyms:
   animation, vivacity, sprightliness, briskness, activity, lilt

How to use liveliness in a sentence?

1. Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales:

   The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.

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