vitality

English

Etymology

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

Noun

vitality (plural vitalities)

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

Related terms

• devive
• revive
• survive
• viable
• vital
• vivid
• vitalism

Translations

The capacity to live and develop

Catalan: vitalitat (ca) f. Finnish: elinvoima (fi)

Spanish: vitalidad (es) f.

Energy or vigour

Catalan: vitalitat (ca) f. Finnish: elinvoima, eloisuus, vireys, puhti French: vitalité (fr) f. Galician: vitalidade (gl) f.

Greek: ζωντάνια (el) Japanese: 精 (ja) (sei) Spanish: vitalidad (es) f.

That which distinguishes living from nonliving things

Catalan: vitalitat (ca) f.

Finnish: elinvoima (fi)

External links

• vitality in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• vitality in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911