animateness

transitive verb animated, animating

1. to give life to; bring to life
2. to make energetic or spirited
3. to stimulate to action or creative effort; inspire
4. to give motion to; put into action: the breeze animated the leaves
5. to make move so as to seem lifelike: to animate puppets
6. to produce as an animated cartoon: to animate a fairy tale

adjective

1. living; having life, esp. animal life
2. lively; vigorous; spirited