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US
/vaɪˈtæɫəti/
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[ UK /vaɪtˈælɪti/ ]
[ UK /vaɪtˈælɪti/ ]
NOUN
- (biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms
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the property of being able to survive and grow
the vitality of a seed - an energetic style
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a healthy capacity for vigorous activity
he seemed full of vim and vigor
jogging works off my excess energy
How To Use vitality In A Sentence
- Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. Erich Fromm
- Fresh, vivacious and lively, this wine has enormous energy and vitality.
- Contemporary African cinema has much to offer in its vitality and freshness.
- When you take the colour from things it robs the world of its vitality and wonder, and leaves things drab and lifeless.
- Hothouse plants do not possess exuberant vitality.
- Rebecca "brings the vitality of herself -- her offhand sense of her own consequence"; Mizzy "feels like a fantasy he's having, his own dream of self, made manifest to others"; Peter exhibits an artist whose video installations show ordinary citizens in repeated commonplace actions, but these figures "do, of course, each of them, carry within them a jewel of self, not just the wounds and the hopes but an innerness. Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham
- The senator promised to restore the economic vitality of the region.
- She is full of youth and vitality.
- the vitality of a seed
- He came back from his holiday bursting with vitality and good health.
