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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vivacity \Vi*vac"i*ty\, noun [L. vivicitas: cf. F. vivacit['e].] The quality or state of being vivacious. Specifically: (a) Tenacity of life; vital force; natural vigor. [Obs.]
The vivacity of some of these pensioners is little less than a miracle, they lived so long. --Fuller. (b) Life; animation; spiritedness; liveliness; sprightliness; as, the vivacity of a discourse; a lady of great vivacity; vivacity of countenance.
Syn: Liveliness; gayety. See {Liveliness}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
vivacity
noun: characterized by high spirits and animation
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "vivacity": activity, alacrity, animal spirits, animate existence, animation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, ardor, avidity, avidness, being alive, birth, breathless impatience, breeziness, brio, briskness, bubbliness, capersomeness, cheerful readiness, coltishness, dash, eagerness, ebullience, effervescence, elan, energy, enthusiasm, esprit, existence, exuberance, forwardness, friskiness, frolicsomeness, gaiety, gamesomeness, gayness, glow, gust, gusto, having life, heartiness, immortality, impatience, impetuosity, impetus, joie de vivre, keen desire, keenness, life, lifetime, liveliness, living, long life, longevity, lustiness, mettle, moxie, pep, peppiness, perkiness, pertness, piquancy, piss and vinegar, pizzazz, playfulness, poignancy, promptness, pungency, quickness, raciness, readiness, robustness, rollicksomeness, rompishness, skittishness, sparkle, spirit, spiritedness, spirits, sportiveness, sprightliness, spriteliness, verve, viability, vigor, vim, vitality, vivaciousness, vividness, warmth, zest, zestfulness, zip
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