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Vitality   /vaɪtˈæləti/   Listen
Vitality

noun
1.
An energetic style.  Synonym: verve.
2.
A healthy capacity for vigorous activity.  Synonyms: energy, vim.  "He seemed full of vim and vigor"
3.
(biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms.  Synonyms: elan vital, life force, vital force.
4.
The property of being able to survive and grow.  Synonym: animation.






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"Vitality" Quotes from Famous Books



... against the pump with a drunken chuckle: "Dave Cabarreux thinks that he's dead, hey? Boyer's not the sort of man to die as long as a good thing like this is in the dice. Why, Boyer's young, sir. He's got more brains and experience and vitality than all the damned wooden Cabarreuxes ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 • Various

... willingly draw the veil, but at the present moment I firmly believe that the planters of Behar—and I speak as an observant student of what has been going on in India—have done more to elevate the peasantry, to rouse them into vitality, and to improve them in every way, than all the other agencies that have been at work with the ...
— Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier - Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter • James Inglis

... his staff was sent to England in charge of it. In this document he informs the Secretary of State that Cetywayo's rule was resolutely built up "without any of the ordinary and lawful foundations of authority, and by the mere vigour and vitality of an individual character." It is difficult to understand what Sir Garnet means in this passage. If the fact of being the rightful and generally accepted occupant of the throne is not an "ordinary and ...
— Cetywayo and his White Neighbours - Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal • H. Rider Haggard

... important to study in the Church of the Latter-Day Saints is the evolution of a communism which has more than half a century of activity to its credit, and which, in contrast to so many other fruitless attempts, has given marked proofs of a vitality that shows ...
— Modern Saints and Seers • Jean Finot

... the cold," said Milly drowsily. The fur coat and blazing logs were beginning to do their blessed work. "Your vitality ...
— Old Crow • Alice Brown


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