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vivacity
English
Etymology
vivac(ious) +? -ity, borrowed from Latin v?v?cit?s.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v??væs?ti/
- Hyphenation: vi?va?ci?ty
Noun
vivacity (countable and uncountable, plural vivacities)
- The quality or state of being vivacious.
- 1612, Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, “Of Youth and Age,”[1]
- But reposed natures may do well in youth. […] On the other side, heat and vivacity in age, is an excellent composition for business.
- 1738, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part I, Section III. Of the Ideas of the Memory and the Imagination,[2]
- We find by experience, that when any impression has been present with the mind, it again makes its appearance there as an idea; and this it may do after two different ways: either when in its new appearance it retains a considerable degree of its first vivacity, and is somewhat intermediate betwixt an impression and an idea: or when it entirely loses that vivacity, and is a perfect idea.
- 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield, Chapter 1,[3]
- The one entertained me with her vivacity when I was gay, the other with her sense when I was serious.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Chapter 2,[4]
- In the name of truth and common sense, why should not one woman acknowledge that she can take more exercise than another? or, in other words, that she has a sound constitution; and why to damp innocent vivacity, is she darkly to be told, that men will draw conclusions which she little thinks of?
- 1819, Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor, Chapter 5,[5]
- Some secret sorrow, or the brooding spirit of some moody passion, had quenched the light and ingenuous vivacity of youth in a countenance singularly fitted to display both […]
- 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Chapter 2,[6]
- […] an extraordinary observer might have seen that the chin was very pointed and pronounced; that the big eyes were full of spirit and vivacity; that the mouth was sweet-lipped and expressive; that the forehead was broad and full; in short, our discerning extraordinary observer might have concluded that no commonplace soul inhabited the body of this stray woman-child […]
- 1612, Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, “Of Youth and Age,”[1]
Synonyms
- liveliness
- vivaciousness
Translations
Anagrams
- vacivity
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gaiety
English
Etymology
From French gaieté, from French gai
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??e?.?.ti/, /??e?.?.ti/
- Hyphenation: gai?e?ty
- Rhymes: -e??ti
Noun
gaiety (countable and uncountable, plural gaieties)
- (dated, uncountable) The state of being happy or merry.
- (dated, countable) Merrymaking or festivity.
Synonyms
- (state of being happy): gayness
Translations
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