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.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
188 Moby Thesaurus words for "vitality":
alacrity, amperage, animal spirits, animate existence, animation,
anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, armipotence, authority, avidity,
avidness, beef, being alive, birth, bite, bitingness, black power,
breathless impatience, brute force, capersomeness, charge,
charisma, cheerful readiness, clout, cogence, cogency,
cohesiveness, coltishness, compulsion, cuttingness, decisiveness,
demonic energy, dint, drive, durability, duress, dynamism,
eagerness, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, elan, endurance,
energy, ergal, esprit, existence, exuberance, flower power, force,
force majeure, forcefulness, fortitude, forwardness, friskiness,
frolicsomeness, full blast, full force, gaiety, gamesomeness,
gayness, get-up-and-go, gust, gusto, guts, gutsiness, haleness,
hardiness, hardness, having life, heartiness, immortality,
impatience, impressiveness, incisiveness, influence,
infrangibility, intensity, intestinal fortitude, keen desire,
keenness, kinetic energy, lastingness, leatherlikeness, life,
lifetime, liveliness, living, long life, longevity, lustihood,
lustiness, main force, main strength, mana, might, might and main,
mightiness, mordancy, moxie, muscle power, nervosity, nervousness,
obstinacy, oomph, pep, piss and vinegar, pizzazz, playfulness,
poignancy, poop, potence, potency, potential energy, potentiality,
power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness,
prepotency, productiveness, productivity, promptness, puissance,
pull, punch, push, quickness, readiness, resistance, robustness,
rollicksomeness, rompishness, ropiness, ruggedness, sinew,
sinewiness, skittishness, sparkle, spirit, spiritedness, spirits,
sportiveness, sprightliness, spriteliness, stalwartness, stamina,
staying power, steam, sticking power, stiffness, stoutness,
strength, strength of will, strenuousness, stringiness, strong arm,
strong language, stubbornness, sturdiness, superiority, superpower,
tenacity, toughness, trenchancy, unbreakability, unbreakableness,
validity, vehemence, verve, viability, vigor, vigorousness, vim,
virility, virtue, virulence, viscidity, vivaciousness, vivacity,
wattage, weight, zest, zestfulness, zing, zip
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
animation, elan vital, energy, life force, verve, vim, vital force
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