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1. The condition of living or the state of being alive
   "while there's animation there's hope";
   - life, living, aliveness
    
2. The property of being able to survive and grow
   "the animation of a seed";
   - vitality
    
3. Quality of being active, spirited or alive and vigorous
   - spiritedness, invigoration, brio, vivification
    
4. The activity of giving vitality and vigour to something
   - vivification, invigoration
    
5. The making of animated cartoons
    
6. General activity and motion
   - liveliness

Derived forms: animations

See also: alive, dead, live, spirited, spiritless

Type of: activating, activation, activeness, activity, aliveness, animateness, being, beingness, cinematography, energising [Brit], energizing, existence, face of the earth, filming, liveness, motion-picture photography

Encyclopedia: Animation, Animated Films, and Animated Cartoons