- [uncountable] the process of making films, videos and computer games in which drawings, models or images of people and animals seem to move
- computer/cartoon animation
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- [countable] a film in which drawings, models or images of people and animals seem to move
- The electronic dictionary included some animations.
- [uncountable] energy and enthusiasm in the way you look, behave or speak
- His face was drained of all colour and animation.
- She talked about her new job with great animation.
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘encouragement’): from Latin animatio(n-), from animare ‘instil with life’, from anima ‘life, soul’. Sense (1) dates from the early 19th cent.
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