Noun

The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.

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Empirical reality; the substance of the physical universe. (Dictionary of Philosophy; 1968)

Noun

(en noun)

The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.

* 1647 , , Christ Mysticall; or the blessed union of Christ and his Members'', as edited and reprinted in Josiah Pratt (editor), ''The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. , Volume 8, C. Wittingham (1808), page 217:

* by the animation of the same soul quickening that whole frame.

(animation, in the sense of a cartoon) The technique of making inanimate objects or drawings appear to move in motion pictures or computer graphics.

The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness

He recited the story with great animation .

The condition of being animate or alive.

* Landor

Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I possess of animation .

(linguistics) conversion from the inanimate to animate grammatical category

* 1992 , Samuel E. Martin, A Reference Grammar of Korean , page 291:

"The constraints are not so hard and fast that exceptional sentences do not occur. In particular animation and disanimation can temporarily suspend the system."