animation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.

   […] by the animation of the same soul quickening that whole frame.

2. 2
   noun

   The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness

   He recited the story with great animation.

3. 3
   noun

   The condition of being animate or alive.

   Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I possess of animation.

4. 4
   noun

   conversion from the inanimate to animate grammatical category

   "The constraints are not so hard and fast that exceptional sentences do not occur. In particular animation and disanimation can temporarily suspend the system."

5. 5
   noun

   general activity and motion

6. 6
   noun

   the making of animated cartoons

7. 7
   noun

   the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something

8. 8
   noun

   quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁mos Proto-Italic *anamos Latin animus Latin anima Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin animō Proto-Indo-European *-tisder. Proto-Italic *-tjō Latin -tiō Latin animatiōlbor. English animation Learned borrowing from Latin animatiō, from animō, equivalent to animate + -ion.