Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being alive; energetic; alert.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of having animal life as distinguished from plant life.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun   The property of being alive .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life
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Examples
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								It was in the desperation to make sense of this difference that "liveness" was finally born. Claire Gordon: A Conversation With Your Cellphone Claire Gordon 2011 
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								As Von Phillip Auslander writes in "Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture,""liveness" never really referred to co-presence in space and time. Claire Gordon: A Conversation With Your Cellphone Claire Gordon 2011 
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								It was in the desperation to make sense of this difference that "liveness" was finally born. Claire Gordon: A Conversation With Your Cellphone Claire Gordon 2011 
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								As Von Phillip Auslander writes in "Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture,""liveness" never really referred to co-presence in space and time. Claire Gordon: A Conversation With Your Cellphone Claire Gordon 2011 
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								As Von Phillip Auslander writes in "Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture," "liveness" never really referred to co-presence in space and time. Claire Gordon: A Conversation With Your Cellphone Claire Gordon 2011 
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								It was in the desperation to make sense of this difference that "liveness" was finally born. Claire Gordon: A Conversation With Your Cellphone Claire Gordon 2011 
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								It was in the desperation to make sense of this difference that "liveness" was finally born. Claire Gordon: A Conversation With Your Cellphone Claire Gordon 2011 
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								Coined by the BBC in 1934, "liveness" became a nifty discursive distinction when an ontological one didn't really exist. Claire Gordon: A Conversation With Your Cellphone Claire Gordon 2011 
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								As Von Phillip Auslander writes in "Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture," "liveness" never really referred to co-presence in space and time. Claire Gordon: A Conversation With Your Cellphone Claire Gordon 2011 
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								Coined by the BBC in 1934, "liveness" became a nifty discursive distinction when an ontological one didn't really exist. Claire Gordon: A Conversation With Your Cellphone Claire Gordon 2011 
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