vitality

== English == === Etymology === From vital +‎ -ity, from Middle French vitalité, from Latin vitalitas (“vital force, life”), from vitalis (“vital”); see vital. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /vaɪˈtælɪti/, /vaɪˈtæləti/, (now rare) /vɪ-/ === Noun === vitality (countable and uncountable, plural vitalities) The capacity to live and develop. Energy or vigour. Synonyms: vital force, life force, vinegar That which distinguishes living from nonliving things; life, animateness. Synonyms: vital force, life force ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== References ==== ==== Further reading ==== “vitality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “vitality”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.