Definition of "vivacity" []

• The quality or condition of being vivacious; liveliness: "the light and vivacity that laugh in the eyes of a child” ( Charles Dickens). (noun)

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• "His mother, always a practical woman, did not press the question of marriage, deeming that with his disposition he would stand a better chance of married peace when he had expended a good deal of what she called his vivacity; and his father, who came of very long-lived people, always said that no man should take a wife before he was thirty."
• "His politeness, his learning, his knowledge of the world, however amiable, are in character at his season of life; but his vivacity is astonishing."
• "It rivals in vivacity the representations by Jacob Hoefnagel (circa 1610; National Library of Austria) and the head study, possibly from life, by Cornelis Saftleven (1638; Boymans Museum, Rotterdam; E. Fuller, Dodo: From Extinction to Icon, London, 2002, pp. 80-81, 111)."