'animation' definitions:

Definition of 'animation'

noun

The condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes" [syn: animation, life, living, aliveness]

noun

The property of being able to survive and grow; "the vitality of a seed" [syn: animation, vitality]

noun

Quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous [syn: animation, spiritedness, invigoration, brio, vivification]

noun

The activity of giving vitality and vigour to something [syn: vivification, invigoration, animation]

noun

The making of animated cartoons

noun

General activity and motion [syn: liveliness, animation]

Synonyms of 'animation'

From: Moby Thesaurus

activity,
actuation,
afflatus,
aggravation,
agitation,
alacrity,
animal spirits,
animate existence,
animating spirit,
animus,
anxiety,
anxiousness,
appetite,
ardency,
ardor,
arousal,
arousing,
avidity,
avidness,
being alive,
birth,
breathless impatience,
breeziness,
brio,
briskness,
bubbliness,
capersomeness,
cheerful readiness,
coltishness,
dash,
direction,
divine afflatus,
dynamism,
eagerness,
ebullience,
effervescence,
elan,
electrification,
energizing,
energy,
enlivening,
enlivenment,
enthusiasm,
esprit,
exacerbation,
exasperation,
excitation,
excitement,
exhilaration,
existence,
exuberance,
fervor,
fire,
firing,
fomentation,
forwardness,
friskiness,
frolicsomeness,
gaiety,
galvanization,
gamesomeness,
gayness,
genius,
glow,
gust,
gusto,
having life,
heartiness,
immortality,
impatience,
impetuosity,
impetus,
incitement,
infection,
inflammation,
influence,
infuriation,
infusion,
inner-direction,
inspiration,
intensity,
invigoration,
irritation,
joie de vivre,
keen desire,
keenness,
lathering up,
life,
lifetime,
liveliness,
living,
long life,
longevity,
lustiness,
mettle,
motivation,
moving,
moving spirit,
moxie,
oomph,
other-direction,
pep,
peppiness,
perkiness,
pertness,
perturbation,
piss and vinegar,
pizzazz,
playfulness,
prompting,
promptness,
provocation,
quickening,
quickness,
readiness,
revitalization,
revival,
robustness,
rollicksomeness,
rompishness,
skittishness,
spirit,
spiritedness,
spirits,
sportiveness,
sprightliness,
spriteliness,
steaming up,
stimulation,
stimulus,
stirring,
stirring up,
verve,
viability,
vigor,
vim,
vitality,
vitalization,
vivaciousness,
vivacity,
vivification,
warmth,
whipping up,
working up,
zest,
zestfulness,
zing,
zip

Words containing 'animation'

anim,
animal,
animalism,
animality,
animalization,
animalize,
animate,
animate being,
animated,
animatedly,
animateness,
animating,
animator,
anime,
animism,
animize,
Animal charcoal,
Animal flower,
Animal force,
Animal heat,
Animal kingdom,
Animal magnetism,
Animal mechanics,
Animal spirits,
Animal temperature,
Animated picture,
Coral animal,
Dumb animal,
Gum animal,
Moss animal,
Pack animal,
Testaceous animals,
Unclean animals,
Wheel animal,
animal black,
animal communication,
animal disease,
animal fancier,
animal fat,
animal fiber,
animal fibre,
animal foot,
animal glue,
animal group,
animal husbandry,
animal leg,
animal material,
animal nature,
animal oil,
animal order,
animal pigment,
animal product,
animal psychology,
animal scientist,
animal skin,
animal starch,
animal stuffer,
animal tissue,
animal toxin,
animal trainer,
animal virus,
animal worship,
animate thing,
animated cartoon,
animated oat,
caprine animal,
domestic animal,
domesticated animal,
draft animal,
farm animal,
fictional animal,
gum anime,
marine animal,
predatory animal,
range animal,
sea animal,
suspended animation,
work animal,
Vegeto-animal,
animal-worship,
Gum animi or anim'e,
The Mysticete or whalebone whales having no true teeth after birth but with a series of plates of whalebone see Baleen hanging down from the upper jaw on each side thus making a strainer through which they receive the small animals upon which they feed