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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vivid \Viv"id\, 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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
vividness
n 1: interest and variety and intensity: "the Puritan Period was
lacking in color" [syn: {color}, {colour}]
2: chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence
vividness of hue [syn: {saturation}, {chroma}, {intensity}]
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