aliveness
/əˈlaɪvnəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.67 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "the aliveness of the colours in a painting"
- "[…] she's such a perplexing mixture of old New England and modernity, of a fatalism, and an aliveness that fairly vibrates."
- "[…] her eyes betrayed a complicated totality of paradoxical alivenesses."
- "Sea-water wet their feet, wind tossed their hair, excitement quivered in every fibre of their aliveness."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-der. Proto-Germanic *an Proto-West Germanic *ana Old English on Proto-Indo-European *leyp- Proto-Germanic *lībanąder. Proto-Germanic *lībą Proto-West Germanic *līb Old English līfder. Old English līfe Old English on līfe Middle English alyve English alive Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English aliveness From alive + -ness.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈlaɪvnəs/