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Animation
WordNet
noun
(1) General activity and motion
(2) The making of animated cartoons
(3) The activity of giving vitality and vigour to something
(4) Quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous
(5) The property of being able to survive and grow
"The vitality of a seed"
(6) The condition of living or the state of being alive
"While there's life there's hope"
"Life depends on many chemical and physical processes"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.
- The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. --Bp. Hall.
- The technique of making inanimate objects or drawings appear to move in motion pictures or computer graphics.
- 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 or alive.
- Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I possess of animation. --Landor.
- conversion from the inanimate to animate grammatical category
- 1992, Samuel E. Martin, A Reference Grammar of Korean, page 291:
- "The constraints are not so hard and fast that exceptional sentences do not occur. In particular animation and disanimation can temporarily suspend the system."
Synonyms
- airiness
- ardor
- buoyancy
- earnestness
- energy
- enthusiasm
- liveliness
- promptitude
- spirit
- sprightliness
- vivacity