vividness [
'vividnis]
n. 生动(性)
vividness[ noun ]- interest and variety and intensity
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the Puritan Period was lacking in color
the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness
- chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue
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vivid \viv"id\ (v[i^]v"[i^]d), a. [L. vividus, from vivere to
life; akin to vivus living. See {Quick}, a., and cf.
{Revive}, {Viand}, {Victuals}, {Vital}.]
1. True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or
freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense;
as, vivid colors.
In dazzling streaks the vivid lightnings play.
--Cowper.
Arts which present, with all the vivid charms of
painting, the human face and human form divine.
--Bp. Hobart.
2. Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors;
lively; sprightly; as, a vivid imagination.
Body is a fit workhouse for sprightly, vivid
faculties to exercise . . . themselves in. --South.
Syn: Clear; lucid; bright; strong; striking; lively; quick;
sprightly; active.
※ -- {viv"id*ly}, adv. -- {viv"id*ness}, n.
- One jostles us with a teeming kaleidoscope of places, people and events of almost grotesque vividness, the other, as Charlotte Bronte disdainfully observed in a brilliantly wrong-headed piece of criticism, is a Chinese miniaturist.
- Indeed, a number of the '60s paintings that are shown together in the large lower gallery are quite impressive for their energy, virtuosity and vividness.