liveness

Questions about liveness

What does liveness mean?

liveness means "the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life".

How many syllables are in liveness?

liveness has 3 syllables: li-ve-ness. The stress falls on "li".

What is another word for liveness?

Close synonyms include animateness, aliveness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is liveness a common word?

liveness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.