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Activeness

The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.

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Agency 76% connected

The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.

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Animation 76% connected

The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive.

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Behavior 76% connected

Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the beh…

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Behaviour 76% connected

(psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation

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Dynamism 76% connected

The doctrine of Leibnitz, that all substance involves force.

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Eructation 76% connected

The act of belching wind from the stomach; a belch.

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Eruption 76% connected

The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust.…

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Extravasation 76% connected

The act of forcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; effusion; as, an extravasation of blood after a rupture of the vessels.

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Hum 76% connected

To make a low, prolonged sound, like that of a bee in flight; to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top hums.

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Invigoration 76% connected

The act of invigorating, or the state of being invigorated.

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Operation 76% connected

The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.

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Play 76% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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Swing 76% connected

To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.

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Vivification 76% connected

The act of vivifying, or the state of being vivified; restoration of life; revival.

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State 76% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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Trait 76% connected

A stroke; a touch.

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Active 74% connected

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

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Active 74% connected

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

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Active 66% connected

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

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Active 66% connected

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

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Inactive 66% connected

Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive.

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Inactive 66% connected

Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive.

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Action 92% connected

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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Activity 92% connected

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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