aliveness
nounUS /əˈlaɪvnəs/
Etymology From alive + -ness.
1
Usually The state of being alive; exuberance, intensity.
- the aliveness of the colours in a painting
- […] she's such a perplexing mixture of old New England and modernity, of a fatalism, and an aliveness that fairly vibrates.1917, Winston Churchill, The Dwelling-Place of Light, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company:
2 more examples
- […] her eyes betrayed a complicated totality of paradoxical alivenesses.1920 September, Jack London, chapter 18, in Hearts of Three, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 231:
- Sea-water wet their feet, wind tossed their hair, excitement quivered in every fibre of their aliveness.1944, Emily Carr, “Beacon Hill”, in The House of All Sorts: