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vivacity

UK/vɪˈvæsɪti/US/vɪˈvæsɪti/
nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,244 of 15,258leans written

Vivacity is liveliness of manner and spirit. Full of vivacity.

It is used far more of people than of anything else and is always a compliment. The Latin root means alive, which the word has kept exactly.

Definitions of vivacity

  1. 1nounvivacityLiveliness of manner and spirit.C2

    “Her vivacity carried the whole evening for everybody else.”

vivacity is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin vivacitas comes from vivax, lively, from vivere, to live.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *gʷeyh₃-

  2. Latin

    vīvācitās

  3. English, today

    vivacity

From Latin vīvācitās (whence -acity).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

vivacity in the wild

  • Baglione found in his art a great vivacity, although he noted Serodine appears to have made few friends and patrons in Rome.

    Giovanni Serodine

  • "Viveza criolla" is Spanish language phrase literally meaning "creole vivacity" and may be translated as "creoles' cleverness" or "creoles cunning".

    Viveza criolla

  • Sculptor and critic Lorado Taft found the King statue "well poised" but "with little vivacity or charm of modeling".

    Statue of William King

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.