What's the difference between liveliness and peppiness?

Liveliness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age.
  • (n.) An appearance of life, animation, or spirit; as, the liveliness of the eye or the countenance in a portrait.
  • (n.) Briskness; activity; effervescence, as of liquors.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) May 28, 2014 Other players have looked livelier tonight for sure, and he's taken one too many touches on occasion, but there was a glimpse of Altidore's value in his hold up play just now.
  • (2) Faced with a housing market in the south-east of England that is livelier than a Brazilian beach carnival, Mr Osborne has decided to grant new powers to the Bank of England to cap mortgages, by either limiting the amount buyers can borrow compared to their income or by restricting the proportion of a house price that can be paid with a mortgage.
  • (3) Some believe that officials are seeking to protect state broadcaster CCTV as it loses viewers to slicker, livelier provincial upstarts such as Hunan and Jiangsu Television.
  • (4) But physical liveliness, being able to tell jokes, that is not about sexuality.
  • (5) Yet sometimes a little decay here and there, some graffiti, flyers posted on walls and lampposts, can add liveliness to what would otherwise be a drab urban experience.
  • (6) "It's reminded me of when we went to the San Siro to play AC Milan except Joe [Jordan] didn't get nutted by [Gennaro] Gattuso," he said, recalling his Tottenham days and ensuring the post-match entertainment proved livelier than the fare on the pitch.
  • (7) As she describes her elastic band theory, her gestures get livelier.
  • (8) The disorder manifests itself as the disappearance of inner liveliness and as a diffuse dissociation of the entire representional world, which I have characterized as the disappearance of psychic transparence.
  • (9) The patients were less sleepy, livelier and less agitated in the isoflurane group in the first hour of recovery.
  • (10) Live bands play regularly, and if you're in family-friendly Les Houches rather than knees-up Chamonix, you'll be thankful for a bit of liveliness.
  • (11) "It's like Bob Dylan's never-ending tour," I suggest, though arguably Dylan might balk at sharing a bill with ventriloquist Roger De Courcey at Aylesbury rugby club, the scene of one of Farage's livelier recent outings.
  • (12) By linking themselves with American social scientists such as Richard Thaler and Robert Cialdini , the Tory high command has managed to cast itself as the new home of intellectual energy in British politics – so much livelier than that sleep-deprived lot over in Downing Street.
  • (13) These scales were called Depression (Anxiety), Hostility, Boredom, Liveliness, Well Being, Friendliness, Concentration and Startle.
  • (14) Results indicate that Factor C (high ego strength), Factor F (liveliness and enthusiasm), Factor H (venturesomeness), Factor Q1 (experimenting), Factor Q3 (high self-concept integration), Factor Q4 (tenseness), Factor QII (anxiety) are significantly related to one or more index of success (satisfaction, size of practice, income and professional advancement).
  • (15) Variations on the theme were explored to rather livelier effect in David Cronenberg's Tinseltown satire Maps to the Stars .
  • (16) For many, especially among the idealists of Momentum who held their own, much livelier conference this week, Labour has to be a social movement that works to change public attitudes on migration and much else – even if that takes a generation.
  • (17) The immediate task for the tandem, then, is to ensure a semblance of liveliness around parliamentary elections on 4 December.
  • (18) The New York section will advance the movement under Thomson's guidance away from the old Wall Street Journal, a crusty financial organ, towards a livelier general interest paper.
  • (19) Cardinale is only in the movie for a few scenes, but she still exudes the same liveliness and warmth she did in her youth.
  • (20) The child's liveliness, sociability, and poor appetite during infancy and childhood were positively related to the adult Type A irritability and hurried behavior clusters, as were the mother's liveliness, orderliness, and intelligence as rated by psychologists during the child's first 6 years.

Peppiness


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He is an aggressive and peppy Twitter user and turns up on Fox Business to predict disaster on a regular basis.
  • (2) The highest achiever of Leonia High's Class of 1972 , "Tom" Ilves gave young classmates rides in his family's Plymouth station wagon and introduced me to a peppy little combo from Los Angeles that had just released their first album.
  • (3) Preen: "I love how the clothes are so happy and peppy, but still cool.
  • (4) The Lego Movie tells the story of Emmet, a conspicuously average member of the ultra-peppy Lego society: yellow head, curved hands, job in construction (what else?)
  • (5) The woman isn't the only person to have been swept up in Frozen's spindrift of sororal love and peppy songcraft – it has become the most successful animated movie of all time with $1.23bn in revenue worldwide, and is now the third-highest grossing film ever in Japan, after Titanic and Spirited Away.
  • (6) But I was at my laptop when the Star Wars YouTube Channel’s anchors, the peppy Anthony Carboni and Andi Gutierrez, went live to a studio in Tokyo.
  • (7) Jean Dujardin plays George Valentin, a silver-screen idol who can't adjust to the new "talkies", while a former ingénue Peppy Miller (played by the winsome Bérénice Bejo) becomes a huge star.
  • (8) In January, she won a Golden Globe for her role as peppy local bureaucrat Leslie Knope in Parks and Recreation (she celebrated by seeming to make out with Bono).