vitality
exuberant physical strength or mental vigor: a person of great vitality.
capacity for survival or for the continuation of a meaningful or purposeful existence: the vitality of an institution.
power to live or grow: the vitality of a language.
vital force or principle.
Origin of vitality
1Other words from vitality
- non·vi·tal·i·ty, noun
- su·per·vi·tal·i·ty, noun
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How to use vitality in a sentence
The power in these stories rests in their veracity, vitality and vulnerability.
Dantiel W. Moniz’s ‘Milk Blood Heat’ thrums with life while considering death | Michele Filgate | February 1, 2021 | Washington PostThis demonstrates that vitality is a critical part of sustaining success in bad times as well as good times.
Finding advantage in adversity: How the Future 50 positioned themselves for growth, even in 2020 | lbelanger225 | December 3, 2020 | FortuneWe are in a demented Chuseok-like season where we think of famine and hunger under our claims of harvest, where we think of sickness and death for the vitality of our health and lives.
San Diego’s restrictions on the number and location of cannabis dispensaries inhibit the economic vitality of existing commercial areas, and are counterproductive to the fundamental urban design goal to create safe and lively streets.
Myths and Shame Shouldn’t Guide Cannabis Regulations | John Bertsch | September 8, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoThe next article in this series will demonstrate how artificial intelligence is converging with genetics and pharmaceuticals to transform how we approach longevity, aging, and vitality.
A Renaissance of Genomics and Drugs Is Extending Human Longevity | Peter H. Diamandis, MD | June 26, 2020 | Singularity Hub
Yet their work lives on, and hardly seems to have lost any of its vitality during the intervening years.
As if to prove their continuing vitality, the other elders choose to write about younger or even much younger characters.
Richard Ford’s Artful Survivalist Guide: The Return of Frank Bascombe | Tom LeClair | November 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJung says that we lose our vitality in playing the role if we identify with it.
If you play a life role as though it were a mythological game, there is vitality and wonder in it.
I know many of them, and they have a wonderful vitality of personality.
Then, as the atmosphere of the room surged back, tense with vitality, her mind leapt forward in welcome.
Uncanny Tales | VariousFurther sign of vitality it never showed as the line was never made.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowLet us suppose its first connection with vitality to be in the simplest form of animated matter—that of the protoplasm.
Gospel Philosophy | J. H. WardSuch opinions, when rich in vitality and warmth of conviction, have a very important function to fulfil.
The English Church in the Eighteenth Century | Charles J. Abbey and John H. OvertonIt suffers from impaired vitality, and uncertain aim; two deadly sicknesses.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) | Robert Louis Stevenson
British Dictionary definitions for vitality
/ (vaɪˈtælɪtɪ) /
physical or mental vigour, energy, etc
the power or ability to continue in existence, live, or grow: the vitality of a movement
a less common name for vital force
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