vitality

English

Etymology

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-/[1]
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun

vitality (countable and uncountable, plural vitalities)

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

Translations

References
  1. Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎, volume I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 4.86, page 145.

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