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vitality

[ vahy-tal-i-tee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural vi·tal·i·ties.

exuberant physical strength or mental vigor:
a person of great vitality.
capacity for survival or for the continuation of a meaningful or purposeful existence:
the vitality of an institution.
power to live or grow:
the vitality of a language.
vital force or principle.

vitality

/ vaɪˈtælɪtɪ /

physical or mental vigour, energy, etc
the power or ability to continue in existence, live, or grow
the vitality of a movement
See vital force
a less common name for vital force

First recorded in 1585–95; from Latin vītālitās, from vītāli(s) vital + -tās -ty ²

Yet their work lives on, and hardly seems to have lost any of its vitality during the intervening years.

As if to prove their continuing vitality, the other elders choose to write about younger or even much younger characters.

Jung says that we lose our vitality in playing the role if we identify with it.

If you play a life role as though it were a mythological game, there is vitality and wonder in it.

I know many of them, and they have a wonderful vitality of personality.

Then, as the atmosphere of the room surged back, tense with vitality, her mind leapt forward in welcome.

Further sign of vitality it never showed as the line was never made.

Let us suppose its first connection with vitality to be in the simplest form of animated matter—that of the protoplasm.

Such opinions, when rich in vitality and warmth of conviction, have a very important function to fulfil.

It suffers from impaired vitality, and uncertain aim; two deadly sicknesses.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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