"vivacity" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /vɪˈvæsɪti/ Audio: en-us-vivacity.ogg [US] Forms: vivacities [plural]
Etymology: vivac(ious) + -ity, borrowed from Latin vīvācitās. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*gʷeyh₃-}}, {{suffix|en|vivacious|ity|alt1=vivac(ious)}} vivac(ious) + -ity, {{bor|en|la|vīvācitās}} Latin vīvācitās Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} vivacity (countable and uncountable, plural vivacities)
  1. The quality or state of being vivacious. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: liveliness, vivaciousness Translations (the state of being vivacious): vivacitat [feminine] (Catalan), vivacité [feminine] (French), სიცოცხლისუნარიანობა (sicocxlisunarianoba) (Georgian), სიცხოველე (sicxovele) (Georgian), სიმხიარულე (simxiarule) (Georgian), სიმკვირცხლე (simḳvircxle) (Georgian), Lebendigkeit [feminine] (German), vivacitate (Interlingua), móraigeantacht [feminine] (Irish), vivacità [feminine] (Italian), vivezza [feminine] (Italian), brillantezza [feminine] (Italian), briosità [feminine] (Italian), ācritās [feminine] (Latin), ācritūdō [feminine] (Latin), žirgtums [masculine] (Latvian), spirgtums [masculine] (Latvian), možums [masculine] (Latvian), mundrums [masculine] (Latvian), mundrība [feminine] (Latvian), vivacidade [feminine] (Portuguese), vivacitate [feminine] (Romanian), жи́вость (žívostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), оживлённость (oživljónnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), жи̏ва̄хно̄ст [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), бо̏дро̄ст [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), žȉvāhnōst [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), bȍdrōst [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), vivacidad [feminine] (Spanish), hayat doluluk (Turkish)

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        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bȍdrōst"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the state of being vivacious",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vivacidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "the state of being vivacious",
      "word": "hayat doluluk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "vivacity"
}

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