Noun

1. The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.

   The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. --Bp. Hall.

2. The technique of making inanimate objects or drawings appear to move in motion pictures or computer graphics.
3. The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness

   He recited the story with great animation.

4. The condition of being animate or alive.

   Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I possess of animation. --Landor.

5. 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