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Vigour vs Animation - What's the difference?

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Vigour is a related term of animation.


As nouns the difference between vigour and animation

is that vigour is active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy while animation is animation.

vigour

English

Alternative forms

* vigor (US) * vygour (obsolete)

Noun

  • Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
  • * (rfdate) :
  • The vigour of this arm was never vain.
  • (biology) Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action.
  • A plant grows with vigour.
  • Strength; efficacy; potency.
  • * 1667 , :
  • But in the fruithful earth His beams, unactive else, their vigour find.

    Usage notes

    Vigour and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.

    Derived terms

    * envigorate * vigorous * hybrid vigor/hybrid vigour

    animation

    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."

    Synonyms

    * (the act of breathing life into something ) vitalization, vivification, enlivenment * (the state of being lively ) airiness, ardor, buoyancy, earnestness, energy, enthusiasm, liveliness, promptitude, spirit, sprightliness, vivacity * (the condition of being alive ) life

    Derived terms

    (Animation) * deanimation * disanimation * reanimation * suspended animation

    Descendants

    * Japanese: ) (borrowed)