Hypertext Webster Gateway: "vitality"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Vitality \Vi*tal"i*ty\ (?; 277), n. [L. vitalitas: cf. F.
vitalit['e].]
The quality or state of being vital; the principle of life;
vital force; animation; as, the vitality of eggs or vegetable
seeds; the vitality of an enterprise.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
vitality
n 1: an energetic style [syn: {verve}]
2: a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; "jogging works off
my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor" [syn:
{energy}, {vim}]
3: (biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical)
once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and
development of organisms [syn: {life force}, {vital force},
{elan vital}]
4: the property of being able to survive and grow; "the
vitality of a seed" [syn: {animation}]
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