aliveness
/əˈlaɪvnəs/noun
aliveness is a noun meaning “The state of being alive; exuberance, intensity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-L-I-V-E-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of aliveness is alivenesses.
What does aliveness mean?
noun
- 1
The state of being alive; exuberance, intensity.
the aliveness of the colours in a painting
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce aliveness?
- US /əˈlaɪvnəs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-aliveness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of aliveness
- alivenesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is aliveness?
Aliveness appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Aliveness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense state:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | vivencia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does aliveness come from?
From alive + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).