Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LIVE'LI-NESS, n. [from lively.]

1. The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age.
2. An appearance of life, animation or spirit; as, the liveliness of the eye or countenance in a portrait.
3. Briskness; activity; effervescence, as of liquors.