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vitality Definition

vi·tal·ity (vī tal′ə tē)

noun pl. -·ties

  1. vital force
  2. power to live or go on living
  3. power, as of an institution, to endure or survive
  4. mental or physical vigor; energy

Etymology: L vitalitas

vitality Synonyms

vitality

n.

life, liveliness, animation, vim, vigor, intensity, continuity, endurance, energy, spirit, ardor, audacity, spunk, fervor, verve, venturesomeness, pep*, punch*, get-up-and-go*.

vitality Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • center: We will continue to encourage the economic vitality of town centers.
  • town: Maintaining investment in the built environment to ensure the continued vitality of towns and villages Reducing dependence on the car.
  • department: The record of the research vitality of the department 13.
  • culture: Throughout the degree program, the emphasis will be given to the plurality and vitality of the cultures that occupy this vast continent.
  • city: Making sure they continue to visit is vital to the prosperity and vitality of the city.
  • community: Great damage to health and the vitality of the community.

Converse of object

  • inject: They have enriched and injected vitality into the labor market.
  • enhance: To protect and enhance the vitality and viability of existing shopping centers.
  • restore: In this way the whole Qi Energy is conserved and stored to be released to restore everyday vitality.
  • sustain: This Strategy sets out the Council's proposals to develop the rural economy and sustain the vitality of town centers.
  • threaten: Ford's failure to implement new technology threatens the vitality of America's auto industry, putting thousands of jobs at risk.
  • maintain: Siting leisure uses in town centers can help maintain the vitality of the center.

Adjective modifier

  • rhythmic: Sometimes the dancing on the left side had a pleasing rhythmic vitality.
  • renewed: The face is a mirror of a person's frame of... this renewed vitality to rejuvenate your daily routine at work.. .
  • continued: What are the factors which help explain the demise and gradual disappearance of the outlaw and the rise and continued vitality of the gangster?
  • economic: I think you get a sense of economic vitality.
  • extraordinary: From this point of view, the nationalized planned economy in the USSR furnished proof of the most extraordinary vitality for decades.
  • tremendous: Throwing off the blanket of communist uniformity, Russia today is a nation of enormous diversity and tremendous vitality.

Modifies a noun

  • pool: Beyond are the old stables converted into a stunning new spa, with indoor pool, vitality pool and treatment rooms.

Noun used with modifier

  • pulp: Crown fractures were identified as significant risk factors for pulp vitality.
vitality Quotes

The corset is†a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitalityand rendering her permanentlyand obviously unfit for work.

—Veblen,Thorstein

Talking of the Comedy of 'The Rehearsal', he said 'It has not enough wit to keep it sweet.' This was easy;öhe therefore caught himself, and pronounced a more rounded sentence; 'It hasnot vitalityenoughtopreserve it from putrefaction.'

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of a deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation.

—Shaw, George Bernard