Definition of "lifeness" [lifeness]

• The state or quality of having a life. (noun)

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• "LANG: But it has dire consequences on a planet where flexibility and kind of lifeness are really the keys."
• "Wood's extolling of "lifeness" and character as key to "how fiction works" has resulted in much red-flagged response from those who favour avant garde experimentalism."
• "Is realism, "lifeness" or verisimilitude a necessary quality of good literature?"