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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 vividness
 活潑;明亮;鮮明

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 viv·id a.
 1. True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense; as, vivid colors.
    In dazzling streaks the vivid lightnings play.   --Cowper.
    Arts which present, with all the vivid charms of painting, the human face and human form divine.   --Bp. Hobart.
 2. Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors; lively; sprightly; as, a vivid imagination.
    Body is a fit workhouse for sprightly, vivid faculties to exercise . . . themselves in.   --South.
 Syn: -- Clear; lucid; bright; strong; striking; lively; quick; sprightly; active.
 -- viv*id*ly, adv. -- viv*id*ness, n.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 vividness
      n 1: interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was
           lacking in color" [syn: color, colour]
      2: chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence
         vividness of hue [syn: saturation, chroma, intensity]