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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 liveliness
 活潑,快活,熱鬧

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Live·li·ness, n.
 1. The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age.
 2. An appearance of life, animation, or spirit; as, the liveliness of the eye or the countenance in a portrait.
 3. Briskness; activity; effervescence, as of liquors.
 Syn: -- Sprightliness; gayety; animation; vivacity; smartness; briskness; activity. -- Liveliness, Gayety, Animation, Vivacity. Liveliness is an habitual feeling of life and interest; gayety refers more to a temporary excitement of the animal spirits; animation implies a warmth of emotion and a corresponding vividness of expressing it, awakened by the presence of something which strongly affects the mind; vivacity is a feeling between liveliness and animation, having the permanency of the one, and, to some extent, the warmth of the other. Liveliness of imagination; gayety of heart; animation of countenance; vivacity of gesture or conversation.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 liveliness
      n 1: general activity and motion [syn: animation]
      2: animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a
         heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to
         it" [syn: life, spirit, sprightliness]