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vividness
(encz) | vividness,svěžest n: Zdeněk Brož |
vividness
(encz) | vividness,živost n: Zdeněk Brož |
vividness
(gcide) | vivid \viv"id\ (v[i^]v"[i^]d), a. [L. vividus, from vivere to
life; akin to vivus living. See Quick, a., and cf.
Revive, Viand, Victuals, Vital.]
1. True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or
freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense;
as, vivid colors.
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In dazzling streaks the vivid lightnings play.
--Cowper.
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Arts which present, with all the vivid charms of
painting, the human face and human form divine.
--Bp. Hobart.
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2. Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors;
lively; sprightly; as, a vivid imagination.
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Body is a fit workhouse for sprightly, vivid
faculties to exercise . . . themselves in. --South.
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Syn: Clear; lucid; bright; strong; striking; lively; quick;
sprightly; active.
[1913 Webster] -- viv"id*ly, adv. -- viv"id*ness, n.
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vividness
(wn) | vividness
n 1: interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was
lacking in color"; "the characters were delineated with
exceptional vividness" [syn: color, colour,
vividness]
2: chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence
vivid in hue [syn: saturation, chroma, intensity,
vividness] |
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