vivacity

== English == === Etymology === From Latin vīvācitās (whence -acity). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /vɪˈvæsɪti/ Hyphenation: vi‧va‧ci‧ty === Noun === vivacity (countable and uncountable, plural vivacities) The quality or state of being vivacious. 1738, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part I, Section III. Of the Ideas of the Memory and the Imagination,[2] We find by experience, that when any impression has been present with the mind, it again makes its appearance there as an idea; and this it may do after two different ways: either when in its new appearance it retains a considerable degree of its first vivacity, and is somewhat intermediate betwixt an impression and an idea: or when it entirely loses that vivacity, and is a perfect idea. ==== Synonyms ==== liveliness vivaciousness ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === vacivity