Crossword clues for vitality
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vitality \Vi*tal"i*ty\ (?; 277), n. [L. vitalitas: cf. F. vitalit['e].] 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Latin vitalitatem (nominative vitalitas) "vital force, life," from vitalis "pertaining to life" (see vital).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The capacity to live and develop 2 energy or vigour 3 That which distinguishes living from nonliving things; life, animateness
WordNet
n. an energetic style [syn: verve]
a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; "jogging works off my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor" [syn: energy, vim]
(biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms [syn: life force, vital force, elan vital]
the property of being able to survive and grow; "the vitality of a seed" [syn: animation]
Wikipedia
Vitality is life, life force, health, youth, or ability to live or exist. The term may also refer to:
Usage examples of "vitality".
The nostrums advertised extensively over the country as specifics for this disease, while they may, in some instances, prevent the attacks for a short time, irritate the stomach, impair digestion, lower vitality, and permanently injure the system, often rendering the disease incurable.
So much stimulation, especially in the wake of the disaster that recently overtook us and the enormous output of energy required to restore the Ancestral Meadows, drains their stamina and vitality.
The Jewish speculations about Angels and Mediators, which at the time of Christ grew very luxuriantly among the Scribes and Apocalyptists, and endangered the purity and vitality of the Old Testament idea of God, were also very important for the development of Christian dogmatics.
I could feel myself sinking, too weak, vitality atrophied, strengths withered.
Yet, although quite practicable, it would be a most morbid and dejected existence, without vitality or even thought, but only paramentation, our chief companions paramental entities of azoic origin more vicious than spiders or weasels.
All its substance and vitality are in the agreement by which the States constitute themselves a firm or copartnership, for certain specific purposes, and for which they open an office and establish an agency under express instructions for the management of the general affairs of the firm.
The animal possesses a vitality superior to any of our later day animals, and if any organism can successfully become the host of a foreign brain, nourishing and cherishing it, the elasmosaurus with its abundant vital forces can do it.
In the grasp of the import of this conception lies the attainment of the vitality of the haiku that Shiki possessed.
It must modify the vitality of the whole system, when other causes may determine in the system thus impaired, the peculiar morbid action of which tubercular matter is the product.
At moments it bore legibly and terribly the tortured stain of hysteria, of nerves stretched to the breaking point, of the furious impatience, unrest and dissonance of her own tormented spirit, and of impending exhaustion and collapse for her overwrought vitality.
The living cannot be made a golembecause with the vitality of orgone, flesh and vegetable is matter interacting with its own mechanisms.
The etheric double, cut off from the supply of prana, or etheric vitality, which it derives from the sun while in incarnation, and not yet adjusted to its new condition, is apt to draw this vitality from whatever source may be available to it.
It seemed that if there was any vitality left in Rebeldom it would deal a blow that would at least cause the presumptuous invader to pause.
The revival of human vitality in the Seventies involved not merely a renascence but a restoration.
Inflata rore non Achaico verba are rarer with him: although superficially mannered, nature is so much nearer to him, that far fewer of his pieces have lost vitality and interest through adherence to forms of feeling or fashions of thought now obsolete.