Liveness in a sentence as a noun

LightTable, on the other hand, supports real liveness.

Model checking deals with two kinds of properties - safety and liveness.

Its not just about hot swapping, but liveness, and the Smalltalk community never got that [1].

This kind of liveness guarantees are used quite often in public key cryptography.

Then the working group started suggesting reasons that an app-layer liveness check would be useful in TLS.

To be fair Apple hasn't said anything about liveness checks or any other safeguards against faked/duplicated fingerprints.

That calls for an interesting optimization: Using escape+liveness analysis you could probably call some of those destructors earlier.

OS: Used mutexes, semaphores, implementation details, argue about pros/cons, liveness/safety properties.

Safety properties effectively say nothing bad ever happens while liveness properties say that something good will eventually happen.

The question of consensus and mutability are, to some extent, separable; immutable data does not provide liveness without consensus guarantees.

Liveness definitions

noun

the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life

See also: animateness aliveness