- animated quality; liveliness; vivacity; spirit: to talk with animation.
- an act or instance of animating or enlivening.
- the state or condition of being animated.
- Graphic Arts
- a dynamic visual medium produced from static drawings, models, or objects posed in a series of incremental movements that are then rapidly sequenced to give the illusion of lifelike motion.
- the process of preparing such animation, as for films, cartoons, video games, etc.
- a product of such animation, as a film or cartoon.
- liveliness; vivacity
- the condition of being alive
- the techniques used in the production of animated cartoons
- a variant of animated cartoon