# animation

Pronunciation: say "an-i-MAY-shuhn" /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/

## Noun

1. A technique that displays still drawings or objects in rapid succession to create the illusion of movement, or the film or game produced this way.
   - Simple: Movies or images made by showing many still pictures very fast so they seem to move.
   - _The film's hand-drawn animation took a team of artists three years to complete._
   - _Modern animation increasingly relies on computer-generated imagery rather than physical cels._
2. The state of being lively, brisk, and full of spirit and energy.
   - Simple: A lively, cheerful feeling that makes someone seem full of energy.
   - _He described his travels with such animation that the whole room fell silent to listen._
   - _Her usual animation faded as the long meeting wore on._
3. The act of animating something, or giving it life or spirit.
   - Simple: The act of giving life or energy to something.
   - _Ancient legends tell of the animation of statues that then walked among the living._
   - _The ritual was believed to bring about the animation of the carved idol._
4. The condition of being alive or animate, as distinct from inert or lifeless matter.
   - Simple: The state of being alive instead of being a dead or lifeless thing.
   - _Biologists once searched for a special force that accounted for the animation of living things._
   - _He wondered at what moment a developing embryo first acquires animation._
5. The organized program of games, sports, shows, and other entertainment offered to guests at a vacation resort.
   - Simple: Fun activities a vacation resort offers, like games, sports, and shows.
   - _The resort's animation organized water polo, quizzes, and a nightly cabaret._
   - _Families chose the package partly for its lively animation program._
6. The grammatical shift by which a noun in the inanimate category comes to be treated as animate.
   - Simple: In grammar, treating a word for a thing as if it names a living being.
   - _The grammar undergoes animation when speakers begin marking a formerly inanimate noun for animate agreement._
   - _Animation of certain loanwords explains why they now take animate verb forms._

## Origin

From Latin animatio, from the verb animare (to give life), formed in English as animate plus the suffix -ion.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/animation (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).