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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