vitality

/vaɪˈtælədi/

/vɪˈtælɪti/

Other forms: vitalities

Are you full of life? Vigorous and energetic? Lucky you. You have vitality, the state of being strong and in great health.

Vitality also has the general meaning of "life force," as in the mysterious power that separates the living from the dead. The phrase "vital organs" comes from vitality, meaning a person's inner organs most essential to life. Abstract things can also have vitality, as in "the vitality of the state" or the vitality of Broadway Theater."

Definitions of vitality

1. noun

   the property of being able to survive and grow
   “the vitality of a seed”

   synonyms: animation

   type of:

   aliveness, animateness, liveness

   the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life
2. noun

   a healthy capacity for vigorous activity
   synonyms: energy, vim

   types:

   juice

   energetic vitality

   ch'i, chi, ki, qi

   the circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health

   type of:

   good health, healthiness

   the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease
3. noun

   an energetic style
   synonyms: verve

   types:

   light, spark, sparkle, twinkle

   merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance

   type of:

   energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim

   an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)
4. noun

   (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

   type of:

   force

   (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity