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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

生动性

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shēng dòng xìng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Vividness/ˈvɪv.ɪd.nəs/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这个故事的生动性吸引了所有读者。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The quality of being intensely deep or bright in color.

    "The vividness of the sunset painted the sky in brilliant shades of orange and pink."
  2. 2

    The quality of a mental image, description, or memory standing out clearly and strongly as if real.

    "She was struck by the vividness of the dream upon waking."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'vividus' meaning 'lively' or 'animated', stemming from 'vivere' (to live). Over centuries, the suffix '-ness' was added in Middle to Modern English to transform the adjective into an abstract noun representing the quality of producing powerful feelings or strong, clear images in the mind.

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