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English Dictionary: Vitality by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Vitality
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vitality
n
  1. an energetic style
    Synonym(s): vitality, verve
  2. a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; "jogging works off my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor"
    Synonym(s): energy, vim, vitality
  3. (biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms
    Synonym(s): life force, vital force, vitality, elan vital
  4. the property of being able to survive and grow; "the vitality of a seed"
    Synonym(s): animation, vitality
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vitality \Vi*tal"i*ty\ (?; 277), n. [L. vitalitas: cf. F.
      vitalit[82].]
      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.
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