vitality

Meaning

  1. (countable, uncountable) The capacity to live and develop.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Energy or vigour.
  3. (countable, uncountable) That which distinguishes living from nonliving things; life, animateness.

Frequency

22k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/vaɪˈtælɪti/
Etymology

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

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