vitality

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the property of being able to survive and grow

   the vitality of a seed

2. 2
   noun

   Energy or vigour.

   youthful vitality

3. 3
   noun

   an energetic style

4. 4
   noun

   (biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms

5. 5
   noun

   a healthy capacity for vigorous activity

6. 6
   noun

   The capacity to live and develop.

7. 7
   noun

   That which distinguishes living from nonliving things; life, animateness.

Etymology

From vital + -ity, from Middle French vitalité, from Latin vitalitas (“vital force, life”), from vitalis (“vital”); see vital.