[f. LIVING ppl. a. + -NESS.] The quality, condition, or fact of being alive or living; vigor, vivacity, vividness.
1688. Sandilands, Salut. Endeared Love, 29. Which indisposeth both Body and Mind to serve the Lord even in that livingness and freshness which he requires.
1831. Lytton, Godolphin, 51. The attitude was even awful in the livingness of its command.
1851. Brimley, Ess., 113. There has arisen in our country … a sense of the livingness and value of our history.
1871. F. J. A. Hort, Hulsean Lect., 195. Early sense of life … branches off into self-regarding passions, but thereby loses its own livingness.
1884. Mrs. Oliphant, Open Door, 43. Signs of the livingness of nature.
