MEANING
1. Lively energy and strength in a person, activity, or form of expression.
2. The capacity of a living thing, institution, or practice to endure and develop.
3. The quality of being alive rather than dead or nonliving.
Use it for
describing a voice or work that feels energetically alive; contrasting exhaustion with renewed animation; showing liveliness without equating it with happinessSeparates lively energy, continued capacity to flourish, and the bare quality of being alive, useful for decay and renewal imagery. Writing functions: Life / Energy / Persistence.
Words that belong together
- youthful vitality
- the vitality of the prose
- renewed vitality
On the page
Even the bitter passages retained the vitality of her speaking voice.
The room seemed to borrow its vitality from the children crowded around the piano.
The festival’s vitality depended on new participants, not simply on the age of its rituals.
The report treats the market’s vitality as its ability to adapt rather than its current size.
The creature’s stillness concealed its vitality; one translucent membrane continued to move.
Word forms
- Base
- vitality
Usage notes
Usually uncountable. Plural vitalities is attested for distinct forms or qualities but uncommon; no ordinary plural is needed in most prose. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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