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Definitions for vitality
vaɪˈtæl ɪ tivi·tal·i·ty

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. vitality, vervenoun

    an energetic style

  2. energy, vim, vitalitynoun

    a healthy capacity for vigorous activity

    "jogging works off my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor"

  3. life force, vital force, vitality, elan vitalnoun

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

  4. animation, vitalitynoun

    the property of being able to survive and grow

    "the vitality of a seed"

Wiktionary

  1. vitalitynoun

    The capacity to live and develop

  2. vitalitynoun

    Energy or vigour

  3. vitalitynoun

    That which distinguishes living from nonliving things; life, animateness

  4. Etymology: From vitalité, from vitalitas, from vitalis; see vital.

Wikipedia

  1. Vitality

    Vitality (from Middle French vitalité, from Latin vītālitās, from Latin vīta 'life') is the capacity to live, grow, or develop. More simply it is the property of having life. The perception of vitality is regarded as a basic psychological drive and, in philosophy, a component to the will to live. As such, people seek to maximize their vitality or their experience of vitality—that which corresponds to an enhanced physiological capacity and mental state.

ChatGPT

  1. vitality

    Vitality is the state of being strong, active, or full of energy. It can also refer to the power or ability to continue or survive, often associated with a sense of liveliness, vigor, or life force. In broader terms, vitality can also refer to the enduring ability or capacity of an entity, such as an organization or ecosystem, to sustain its essential functions.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Vitalitynoun

    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

  2. Etymology: [L. vitalitas: cf. F. vitalit.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of vitality in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of vitality in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of vitality in a Sentence

  1. Martha Graham:

    There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

  2. Jameel Jaffer:

    The decision will help ensure the integrity and vitality of digital spaces that are increasingly important to our democracy.

  3. George Bernard Shaw:

    Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

  4. Johann Schneider-Ammann:

    I'm not going to play with numbers, just how high immigration will be at the end, nobody knows. But I think everybody, even the fiercest proponents of the mass immigration initiative, know that we can't risk our economic vitality. We need well-qualified foreign workers, that's undisputed. Just how many, that's what we'll be discussing in the coming year.

  5. De Freese:

    This is about more than just the environment, it's about human health, it's about quality of life, it's about the economic vitality of our coastal communities. And if we fail to act in a science-driven way to solve these problems, as the population grows, these problems will grow with it.

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