animation meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

animation

noun

/ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/ · South-Asia /ə.nɪˈme.ʃən/

Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin animatiō, from animō, equivalent to animate + -ion.

The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.

[…] by the animation of the same soul quickening that whole frame.1647, Joseph Hall, Christ Mysticall; or the blessed union of Christ and his Members, as edited and reprinted in Josiah Pratt (editor), The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D., Volume 8, C. Wittingham (1808), page 217

A sequence of still drawings or inanimate objects displayed in rapid succession to create the illusion of movement in motion pictures or computer graphics; the object (film, computer game, etc.) produced

In the sense of a cartoon

The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness

He recited the story with great animation.

The condition of being animate (alive or supernaturally seeming alive).

Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I possess of animation.1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences conversion from the inanimate to animate grammatical category

"The constraints are not so hard and fast that exceptional sentences do not occur. In particular animation and disanimation can temporarily suspend the system."1992, Samuel E. Martin, A Reference Grammar of Korean, page 291:

Activities offered by a holiday resort encompassing activities that include movement, joy, leisure and spectacle, such as games, sports, shows, events, etc.