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animateness

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Noun1.animateness - the property of being animatedanimateness - the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life
liveness, aliveness
physiological property - a property having to do with the functioning of the body
animation, vitality - the property of being able to survive and grow; "the vitality of a seed"
sentience - the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart
inanimateness, lifelessness - not having life
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Psychological dimension of case in sentence processing: Action role and animateness.
The effect of text format upon underachieving first year college ... by McCabe, Patrick P.; Kraemer, Linda A.; Miller, Paul M.; Parmar, Rene S.; Ruscica, Marybeth B. / Journal of College Reading and Learning
9) Soranus's account of hysterical symptoms explains their being produced by inflamed uterine membranes, which make the uterus appear to turn slightly because of membranous constriction (status strictus) but Soranus's theory still describes uterine movement despite his ultimate rejection of actual animateness and movement: the womb does not move as an independent entity; its vessels constrict, merely appearing to move.
Shakespearean revivifications: early modern undead by Peterson, Kaara L. / Shakespeare Studies
Of course, this in turn recalls the distinction Roland Barthes makes in Camera Lucida between the photograph and film, the former constituting an animateness now inanimate and intractable and the latter constituting the tractability of animation (to recall, tractable, so too intractable, is from trahere).
The Illusion of The Beginning: A Theory of Drawing and Animation by CHOLODENKO, ALAN / Afterimage
 
 
 
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