livingness

For my own part I think it will prove in the end more convenient if we say that there is a low kind of livingness in every atom of matter, and adopt Life eternal as no less inevitable a conclusion than matter eternal.

Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals Samuel Butler 1868

The proper inference is, that there is a low kind of livingness in every atom of matter.

Unconscious Memory Samuel Butler 1868

Independent of specifically missing the good things about my ex, I'm also aware that I'm going to miss the warmth, skin, pulse and general "livingness" that you feel from a lover.

Ask MetaFilter 2009

In the opening to The Human Stain, author Philip Roth's narrator, Nathan Zuckerman, describes the summer of 1998, when "Bill Clinton's secret" - about Monica - "emerged in every last mortifying detail - every last lifelike detail, the livingness, like the mortification, exuded by the pungency of the specific data."

Michael Takiff: Bill Clinton, Still the Biggest Dog in Town Michael Takiff 2010

In the opening to The Human Stain, author Philip Roth's narrator, Nathan Zuckerman, describes the summer of 1998, when "Bill Clinton's secret" - about Monica - "emerged in every last mortifying detail - every last lifelike detail, the livingness, like the mortification, exuded by the pungency of the specific data."

Michael Takiff: Bill Clinton, Still the Biggest Dog in Town Michael Takiff 2010

Sometimes you succeed at yanking them accessing info from the ground or crack or difficult place but most times you merely break them in half and leave the living root where it was, thus not being able to extract this livingness from the ground so that it doesn't live again — or at least for a few months.

Untitled in Four Parts Jeffrey S. Callico 2011

I suppose it's nice to regulate and synchronize everyone's life with a clock, but it's sad when this kind of time becomes significant to the exclusion of the Timelessness that actually envelopes livingness.

A BROKEN CLOCK REVEALS THE LIE OF A MATERIAL-MECHANICAL UNIVERSE 2007

His hard brain went soft, and he felt his livingness as never before.

In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

Responsive movements being a test of life, we shall try to construct a scale with which the height of livingness may be measured.

Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose

And how scarifyingly he would laugh at me, if he knew what comic relics of old prudish reflexes are stirred up by the contact with his mere human livingness.

The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918