liveliness

lively | American Dictionary

lively
adjective
us/ˈlɑɪv·li/
having or showing a lot of energy and enthusiasm, or showing interesting and exciting thought:
We have a lively group of seniors who meet to discuss the books they’ve read.
Imelda takes a lively interest in politics.

liveliness

noun[ U ]us/ˈlɑɪv·li·nəs/

Examples of lively

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Much has changed in developmental psychology over the last decade and, not least, it has become one of the livelier areas of psychology.
Not only "less guarded" words but "livelier shapes" enhance the fancy-work of refashioning individual patriots and collective dreams.
I regard those efforts with the liveliest interest and sympathy.
One of the liveliest issues of contemporary education is that of four year olds in school.
Dancers are undoubtedly amongst the fittest and liveliest of their generation, and they are certainly not feigning their agility on the dance floor.
The sections that follow represent an attempt to examine briefly some of the liveliest areas of debate.
In others, it evokes images of spatial concentration - quality living within existing urban areas and in a much denser and livelier manner.
If not soul-mates, they were always style-mates; and the fierce trenchancy that characterises literary life at its liveliest, in a polemical age, never found finer exponents.
Significantly, singers often interpreted songs which might have been capable of livelier rendition in a way so as to express and engender rather more tender emotions.
Our fifth year has in many ways been our liveliest year, in which we have covered some of the most significant issues and projects in the language.
Since the justification, it did not transgress on their meaning to assert that the works entailed by 'lively faith' are also conditions.
In the early 1950s there was lively debate among adult educationists about the future roles of the various agencies in the field.
Again, lively and vivid language is best employed for this end.
The former were usually lively and interesting; the latter, almost equally likely to be very dull indeed.
From the lively discussion, three recurrent themes emerged.
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