Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The capacity to live and develop.

    жизнеспосо́бностьžiznesposóbnostʹ, жи́зненностьžíznennostʹ, жизнесто́йкостьžiznestójkostʹ

    a healthy capacity for vigorous activity

  2. (countable, uncountable)Energy or vigour.

    youthful vitality

    full of vitality

    Vitalität, Lebenskraft

    жи́востьžívostʹ, энерги́чностьenɛrgíčnostʹ

  3. (countable, uncountable)That which distinguishes living from nonliving things; life, animateness.

Examples

9 sentences
  1. Try to give your writing some vitality.

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  2. Health and vitality are important for long life.

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  3. Tom still has great vitality for his age.

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  4. It came back to life with even more vitality.

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  5. My brother had a great deal of vitality for his age.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
the capacity to live and develop:
energy or vigour:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
energy or vigour:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: vitalities
Singularvitality
Pluralvitalities

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an energetic style:verve
  • the property of being able to survive and grow:animation
  • (biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms:life forcevital forceelan vital
  • a healthy capacity for vigorous activity:energyvim

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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