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Etymology
[edit]From Latin animatio, from animare, equivalent to animate + -ion.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]animation (countable and uncountable, plural animations)
- The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.
- 1647, Joseph Hall, 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.
- 1647, Joseph Hall, 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:
- (animation, in the sense of a cartoon) A sequence of still drawings or inanimate objects displayed in rapid succession to create the illusion of movement in motion pictures or computer graphics; the object (film, computer game, etc.) produced
- 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.
- 1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
- 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."
- Activities offered by a holiday resort encompassing activities that include movement, joy, leisure and spectacle, such as games, sports, shows, events, etc.
Synonyms
[edit]- (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
[edit]- animalcule
- animalesque
- animalhood
- animalian
- animalicide
- animalish
- animalism
- animalivore
- animalivorous
- animalize
- animalkind
- animally
- animalness
- animaloid
- animation meme
- antianimal
- companimal
- deanimation
- disanimation
- humanimal
- interanimal
- intraanimal
- koranimal
- microanimal
- multianimal
- nonanimal
- planimal
- reanimation
- semianimal
- superanimal
- suspended animation
- time series animation
- vegetoanimal
- vegeto-mineral
- wereanimal
Descendants
[edit]- → Hindi: एनिमेशन (enimeśan)
- → Japanese: アニメーション (animēshon)
- → Korean: 애니메이션 (aenimeisyeon)
- → Thai: แอนิเมชัน (ɛɛ-ní-mee-chan)
Translations
[edit]the act of animating
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causing images to appear to move
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Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin animātiōnem.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]animation f (plural animations)
Further reading
[edit]- “animation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]animation c
Declension
[edit]Declension of animation | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | animation | animationen | animationer | animationerna |
Genitive | animations | animationens | animationers | animationernas |
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- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂enh₁-
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms suffixed with -ion
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/eɪʃən
- Rhymes:English/eɪʃən/4 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Animation
- English terms with usage examples
- English terms with quotations
- en:Linguistics
- French terms borrowed from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French 4-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns