Animation

Noun

 * 1) The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.
 * 2)  The technique of making inanimate objects or drawings appear to move in motion pictures or computer graphics.
 * 3) The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness
 * 4) The condition of being animate or alive.
 * 5)  conversion from the inanimate to animate grammatical category

Adjectives for Animation
fascinating; glad;  suspended;  perspiring; garrulous; contagious; social; characteristic; vivid; dazzling; delightful; playful;  transient; picturesque; returning; intense;  mechanical ; preternatural.

Verb for Animation
attain; behold; bestow - upon; buoy up with -; breathe out; burst into; counterfeit; enliven with; evince; feign; fire with; impart; incite to; inject; inspire with; instil -;  manifest;  provoke to; recite with; restore; revive ; sparkle with; suspend; vitalize with ; woo  with -; enlivens;  fatigues; flags;  flares  up;  jades; wearies.

Thesaurus
activity; actuation; afflatus; aggravation; agitation; alacrity; animal spirits; animate existence; animating spirit; animus; anxiety; anxiousness; appetite; ardency; ardor; arousal; arousing; avidity; avidness; being alive; birth; breathless impatience; breeziness; brio; briskness; bubbliness; capersomeness; cheerful readiness; coltishness; dash; direction; divine afflatus; dynamism; eagerness; ebullience; effervescence; elan; electrification; energizing; energy; enlivening; enlivenment; enthusiasm; esprit; exacerbation; exasperation; excitation; excitement; exhilaration; existence; exuberance; fervor; fire; firing; fomentation; forwardness; friskiness; frolicsomeness; gaiety; galvanization; gamesomeness; gayness; genius; glow; gust; gusto; having life; heartiness; immortality; impatience; impetuosity; impetus; incitement; infection; inflammation; influence; infuriation; infusion; inner-direction; inspiration; intensity; invigoration; irritation; joie de vivre; keen desire; keenness; lathering up; life; lifetime; liveliness; living; long life; longevity; lustiness; mettle; motivation; moving; moving spirit; moxie; oomph; other-direction; pep; peppiness; perkiness; pertness; perturbation; piss and vinegar; pizzazz; playfulness; prompting; promptness; provocation; quickening; quickness; readiness; revitalization; revival; robustness; rollicksomeness; rompishness; skittishness; spirit; spiritedness; spirits; sportiveness; sprightliness; spriteliness; steaming up; stimulation; stimulus; stirring; stirring up; verve; viability; vigor; vim; vitality; vitalization; vivaciousness; vivacity; vivification; warmth; whipping up; working up; zest; zestfulness; zing; zip

Pronunciation




Synonyms

 * (giving life or spirit) breath life into, vitalize
 * (the state of being lively) airiness, ardor, buoyancy, earnestness, energy, enthusiasm, liveliness, promptitude, spirit, sprightliness, vivacity
 * (the condition of being alive) life

Derived terms

 * deanimation
 * disanimation


 * reanimation
 * suspended animation