vivacity

• Thus it tended to establish for literary use an aristocracy of words; and while literary expression gained in dignity and intellectual precision, gained as an instrument of reason and analysis, such regulation created a danger that it might lose in elements that have affinities with the popular mind--vivacity, colour, picturesqueness, variety. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
• She has repeated to the grown man the tales she had told to the child thirty years before; nor has her narration lost a shade of the old sincerity, vivacity, and grace. —  The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
• He always talked with great vivacity, and as if he meant what he was saying. —  The Green Carnation
• He makes friends because he has the cheerfulness and vivacity which is the charm of good-fellowship. —  Practical Ethics
• Her serious folly and foolish wisdom, her poem and malice and compliments and babbling vivacity--set off, it is fair to remember, by a pretty face--are atonement for a dozen Maskwells. —  The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2]

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

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