animation

[ an-uh-mey-shuhn ]

noun

1. animated quality; liveliness; vivacity; spirit:

   to talk with animation.

   Synonyms: sprightliness, exhilaration, ardor, enthusiasm, energy, vigor

   Antonyms: sluggishness

2. an act or instance of animating or enlivening.
3. the state or condition of being animated.
4. Graphic Arts
   1. a dynamic visual medium produced from static drawings, models, or objects posed in a series of incremental movements that are then rapidly sequenced to give the illusion of lifelike motion.
   2. the process of preparing such animation, as for films, cartoons, video games, etc.
   3. a product of such animation, as a film or cartoon.

animation

/ ˌænɪˈmeɪʃən /

noun

1. liveliness; vivacity
2. the condition of being alive
3. 1. the techniques used in the production of animated cartoons
   2. a variant of animated cartoon

Other Words From

• inter·ani·mation noun
• nonan·i·mation noun
• over·ani·mation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of animation¹

1590–1600; 1910–15 animation fordef 4; (< Middle French ) < Latin animātiōn- (stem of animātiō a bestowing of life). See animate, -ion

Example Sentences

These chips were initially designed to handle the high data volumes that need to be crunched for animation—making them the standard chip for use in computer gaming and computer-aided design.

From Fortune

For some, it kept the economy in a state of suspended animation, allowing families without income and businesses without profits to continue to pay rent and stay afloat.

From ProPublica

Create your new blogs in the video format with a voiceover and some animation.

From Search Engine Watch

To bypass that protection, the researchers used code that was tailored to a built-in animation component called spinner-grow.

From Ars Technica

Networks and streamers alike may get more creative with their programming, relying more on animation and user-generated content—like web series on YouTube.

From Fortune

Stop-motion animation artist PES has unveiled a new short this week.

From The Daily Beast

As for Ready for Hillary, it now survives in a sort of suspended animation.

From The Daily Beast

Jeffrey Katzenberg, the CEO of DreamWorks Animation, is basically the “new George Soros.”

From The Daily Beast

Shooting entirely on film, Davis personally oversaw the animation of the specters at his production studios in Indiana.

From The Daily Beast

Garfield the cat occupies an understated and often overlooked position critical to the history of televised animation.

From The Daily Beast

The quadroon was following them with little quick steps, having assumed a fictitious animation and alacrity for the occasion.

From Project Gutenberg

He spoke with an animation and earnestness that gave an exaggerated importance to every syllable he uttered.

From Project Gutenberg

The duke was in the highest animation, and he talked to every one round him, as we marched along, with more than condescension.

From Project Gutenberg

The orators of the opposition declaimed against him with great animation and asperity.

From Project Gutenberg

As the hour of death drew near, her courage and animation seemed to increase.

From Project Gutenberg