Vitality
[vaɪ'tælɪtɪ] or [vaɪ'tæləti]
Definition
(n.) 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.
Edited by Cathryn
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Life, animation, vital power.
Edited by Bradley
Examples
- Pray whose opinion did you think would have the most obstinate vitality? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Even then he lacked his ordinary exuberance of life, and it appeared as if a great portion of his vitality disappeared with the sun. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It was only as the fifteenth century drew to its close that any indications of the real vitality of Western Europe became clearly apparent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But here it was also a religious revolution with a new and distinctive mental vitality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This Sumerian learning had a very great vitality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Every subject in Davy's mind has the principle of vitality. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- They show their real vitality by a relentless growth in spite of all the little fences and obstacles that foolish politicians devise. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The segregation which kills the vitality of history is divorce from present modes and concerns of social life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And he, who triumphed in the world, he became more and more hollow in his vitality, the vitality was bled from within him, as by some haemorrhage. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The enormous vitality that is regenerating other interests can be brought into the service of politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But we must never forget that Mamma, in spite of her wonderful vitality, is a very old woman. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- One man in times of old, it is said, imparted vitality to the statue he had chiselled; others may have the contrary gift of turning life to stone. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Through the length of five-and-twenty couples they threaded their giddy way, and a new vitality entered her form. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- That he could have gone on after receiving such an injury said much for the vitality and courage of the man. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The trusts had appeared, labor was restless, vice seemed to be corrupting the vitality of the nation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Editor: Rosanne