vivacity
noun
the quality or state of being vivacious.
vivacities
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pluralof vivacity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Karl, beaming at his companions in his old way, but rattling off French vivacities without the faintest trace of accent.
From Stories in Light and Shadow by Bret Harte
Without some sharpness of interest I shouldn't now have the memories; but these stick to me somehow with none of the hard glue of recovered "spirits," recovered vivacities, assurances, successes.
From A Small Boy and Others by Henry James
Those vivacities of young Fritz, his taste for music, finery, those furtive excursions into the domain of Latin and forbidden things, were distasteful and incomprehensible to Friedrich Wilhelm: Where can such things end?
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 04 by Thomas Carlyle
These superficial vivacities were the slighter play of a self-consciousness which in its deeper recesses was steadily gathering power, richness, and assurance.
From Robert Browning by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
"Ah! friends, we are teaching each other how to die—let us not forget that," Mrs. Gannat murmured, gently, and there was a sudden hush in the exchange of vivacities.
From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan
