living
adjective
having life; being alive; not dead.
livingness
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a word derived from
living.
Example Sentences
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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 livingness of Life consists in both concentration and externalisation: it is not the dead equilibrium of inertia, but the living equilibrium of a vital and rhythmic pulsation.
From The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science by T. (Thomas) Troward
What completer proof can we have that livingness consists in deed rather than in consciousness of deed?
From Erewhon Revisited by Samuel Butler
There is, of course, one sense in which the quality of livingness does not admit of degrees; but there is another sense in which it is entirely a question of degree.
From The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science by T. (Thomas) Troward
In whatever way we turn the subject we shall always find that what we call the "livingness" of any individual life is ultimately measured by its intelligence.
From The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science by T. (Thomas) Troward
