alive
adjective
aliveness
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a word derived from
alive.
Example Sentences
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It was instead a shared endeavor, mutually manufactured in yet another instance of a play letting down its guard to reach new levels of aliveness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025
But, in essence, what audiences relate to the most is this loose sense of aliveness, that things can go wrong or be brilliant or beautiful.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023
Metzger hoped the actors might “capture the shock of Max’s performance style, even the strange wild aliveness of the poems on the page.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2023
Such wording was inspired in part by the idea that people can embrace cardiac activity as the moment of aliveness, even though a heart is not then fully developed.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2022
All around you things are purely living, and you among them, and the aliveness makes you tremble.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
