living
adjective
having life; being alive; not dead.
livingness
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a word derived from
living.
Example Sentences
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The blue, steady livingness of his eyes she enjoyed like morning.
From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
When we realize the truth about the Creative Process, we see that the originating life is not physical: its livingness consists in thought and feeling.
From The Doré Lectures being Sunday addresses at the Doré Gallery, London, given in connection with the Higher Thought Centre by T. (Thomas) Troward
Thus his personages have a body, and awaken sympathies which would hardly attach to purely allegorical figures; a charm of livingness invests the world he has created.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell
The Spirit is Life, hence its generic tendency must always be lifeward or to the increase of the livingness of every individual.
From The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science by T. (Thomas) Troward
We have no doubt as to the livingness of a plant, but we realize that it is something very different from the livingness of an animal.
From The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science by T. (Thomas) Troward
