The giving or bestowal of life.

The action or process of imparting life, vitality, or (as a sign of life) motion; quickening, vitalizing.

= quickening, n.1 1a.

The action or fact of enduing with life; the fact of being vivified physically.

The giving of form (form, n. 4a) or essential character to something; the action of imbuing with a particular quality; animation (esp. of the body…

The action of enliven, v.

The action or process of vitalizing, or the state of being vitalized; an instance of this.

mutual animation.