Animation and Paralysis

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Animation noun - The quality or state of having abundant or intense activity.

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Paralysis is an antonym for animation.

Nearby Words: animate, animated, animal, animating, animator

Paralysis noun - Complete or partial loss of physical function (as motion or sensation) in a part of the body.

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Animation is an antonym for paralysis in lifelessness topic.

full	full animation	full paralysis
normal	normal animation	normal paralysis
brief	brief animation	brief paralysis
standard	standard animation	standard paralysis
Other adjectives: single, simple, actual, excellent, facial.

The Love Machine pet is praised for its useful paralysis effect, but its slow animation made battles drag on.

Source: Overly Long Fighting Animation
With high enough Marksman skill, the Skeletons in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion will shatter, only to come back together as if nothing had happened; in this case it's a (possibly unintentional) side effect of the game using the same animation for paralysis and death.

Source: Pulling Themselves Together
You can easily get caught one of these in the Pokémon Rumble series if you're facing multiple enemy Pokemon with moves that cause a lengthy stagger animation like Rock Slide or moves that induce paralysis or flinching like Dragonbreath and Fake Out.

Source: Cycle of Hurting

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