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Definitions: Vitality |
VitalityNoun1. An energetic style. 2. A healthy capacity for vigorous activity; "jogging works off my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor". 3. (biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms. 4. The property of being able to survive and grow; "the vitality of a seed". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vitality" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
Synonyms: VitalitySynonyms: animation (n), elan vital (n), energy (n), life force (n), verve (n), vim (n), vital force (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Life | Noun: life, vitality, viability; animation; vital spark, vital flame, soul, spirit. |
Stability | Noun: stability; immutability; Adjective: unchangeability; Adjective: unchangeableness; constancy; stable equilibrium, immobility, soundness, vitality, stabiliment, stiffness, ankylosis, solidity, aplomb. |
Strength | Stoutness; Adjective: lustihood, stamina, nerve, muscle, sinew, thews and sinews, physique; pith, pithiness; virtility, vitality. |
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Screenplays | My vitality exhausted. (Roswell; writing credit: Ronald D. Moore; Gretchen J. Berg) | |
Clever | Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving from where you left them to where you can't find them. (references; author: unknown) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Social welfare is the total plan of the Clean Government Party : full of vitality and challenge, it's our right to have a life full of health and rich with culture.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Author Unknown | A good test of a man's religion is its vitality. |
E. M. Cioran | We derive our vitality from our store of madness. |
Walt Whitman | Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | All this is alive with the hideous vitality of things which are organised in disorganisation. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | At his first violent sin he had felt a wave of vitality pass out of him and had feared to find his body or his soul maimed by the excess. |
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Health | The infection results in loss of tooth minerals that begins on the outer surface of the tooth and can progress through the dentin to the pulp, ultimately compromising the vitality of the tooth. (references) | |
However, with accelerating progress in basic and applied research, there is renewed vitality and growing optimism among investigators that, with continued effort, the problems of spinal cord injury will be overcome. (references) | ||
The Institute for the Study of Aging, Inc., (ISOA) a non-profit organization recently established primarily to facilitate development and testing of effective drugs for AD, co-sponsored with NIA a workshop on maintaining cognitive vitality, and future joint initiatives are being discussed. (references) | ||
Business | With Korea's main industries showing renewed vitality, the demand for high quality, sophisticated tools is surging. (references) | |
The vitality of the sector's basic products as well as the recent developments in quality to meet international standards and requirements are both enhancing the sector in the local market and increasing the export capacity of local producers. (references) | ||
The present vitality of the Taiwan economy -- growth in 2000 is forecast at over six percent -- has increased the demand for more and newer buildings, plants and facilities for the private sector, another major source of demand for imported security systems. (references) | ||
Economic History | Norway | Offshore hydrocarbon deposits were discovered in the 1960s, and development began in the 1970s. The growth of the petroleum sector has contributed significantly to Norwegian economic vitality. (references) |
Seychelles | Tourism arrivals, one of the two main indicators of vitality in the sector, grew by 4.1% in 2000. Income also rose by 0.6%. A strong marketing effort by the Seychelles Tourism Marketing Authority (STMA) and the introduction of several new five-star hotels seems to have spurred the growth. (references) | |
Korea | This economic slowdown is in stark contrast to the 18 months of a sharp economic rebound from the 1997-98 financial crisis that Korea enjoyed from January 1999 to July 2000. Despite some recent signs of more economic vitality resulting from Korean government's economic stimulus efforts and the recovery of domestic demand, the future prospects for the economy are still uncertain due to incomplete restructuring and a weakening external environment, including slower U.S. economic growth. (references) | |
Indigenous People | India | The construction of a road through the forest that is inhabited by this group and the encroachment of Indian settlers have affected negatively this indigenous group's cultural vitality, economic self-sufficiency, and physical and mental health. (references) |
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | The health and vitality of current-day agriculture represents a significant departure from the situation that existed when I came to office four years ago. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We must strive, through innovations like the payment-in-kind crop swap approach and an aggressive export policy, to restore health and vitality to rural America. |
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| "Vitality" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vitality" is used about 460 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 460 | 12,751 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "vitality". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Vidal | Male | Spanish | Vitality |
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Expressions using "vitality": of great vitality ♦ Vitality Fasting and Rejuvenation. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "vitality": non-vitality. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "vitality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vitalitet, gjallëri (activity, alacrity, alertness, animation, brio, briskness, dynamism, ebullience, ebulliency, effervescence, effervescency, friskiness, ginger, life, liveliness, lustiness, mercuriality, pep, pepper, sprightliness, verdure, verve, vivacity, volatility, zest), forcë jetësore. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حيوية (activity, animation, dash, drive, elan, energy, ginger, life, liveliness, pep, sparkle, spirit, sprightliness, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, vivacity, youthfulness, zest, zing, zip), النماء, النشاط, الحيوية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стабилност (durability, fastness, road-holding, soundness, stability), живост (activity, agility, alertness, brio, esprit, ginger, jazz, liveliness, mercuriality, mobility, nervousness, pep, punch, snap, sprightliness, spunk, vinegar, vivacity, vividness, volatility, zap), жизненост (animalism, dash, juice, life, pep, pith, pizzazz, pulse, staying power, vigor, vigour, vivacity), жизненоспособност, издръжливост (bottom, endurance, guts, mettle, patience, reliability, resistance, sand, sinews, stay, staying power, strength, tenacity, tensility, toughness, wear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "命力 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vitalita (bounce, energy, lustiness, resilience, vigor, vigour), životnost (animation, service life), životní síla (stamina, vital force). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vitaliteit, levenskracht. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قدرت یاخاصیت حیاتی , انرژی وزنده دلی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | elävyys (animation, liveliness, survival rate, vivacity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vitalité (vigor, vigour, vim). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Vitalität (exuberance, nervous energy, pulse, vigor, vigors, vigour), Lebenskraft (life force, marrow, sap, vigor, vigour, vital force). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ζωτικότητα (stamina, vim, vitalism, vitalness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לחלוחית (freshness, moisture), חיות (life, sap, spirit, verve, vivacity, zip), חיו יות (brio, indispensability, jiva), כוח חיים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vitalitás (bounce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kebugaran. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vitalit (life annuity, viability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 精魂 (energy, soul, spirit), 精力 (energy, vigor), 精気 (essence, life energy, spirit), 精 (energy), "気 (animation, life, spirit, verve, vigor), "活力 (ability to earn a living), "彩 (life, vividness), "動 , バイキング料理 (bicology, bicycle motocross, bike, binary, binary dump, binary file, bin-aural, binder, bisexual, bite, bypass, byte, byte swap, byte-code, byte-compile, motorcycle, smorgasbord, viper, work), ワラント債 (110 camera, 6-8 seat automobile with sliding door, bonds with warrants, bow-wow, cost of maintaining a pet dog, doggie fashion, down one out, katakana for "we", katakana for "wi", migratory bird, minivan, non-returnable bottle, once through, one, one down, one step at a time, one touch, one two, one way bottle, one-length, one-man, one-man bus, one-man show, one-piece dress, one-point relief, one-sided, one-step, people-mover, punch, studio apartment, studio flat, version, version-up, violin, wand, warrant loan, wonder, wonderland), 気力 (energy, willpower), 活力 (energy), 活動力 (energy), 元気 (courage, energy, health, pep, robust, spirit, stamina, vigor, vim). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | バイタリティー , ヴァイタリティ , きりょく (energy, willpower), せいさい (brilliance, detail, legal wife, life, punishment, restraint, sanctions, vividness), せいどう (braking, bronze, church, path of duty, path of righteousness, politics, refined copper, sanctuary, temple, the correct path, the right track), せいかつりょく (ability to earn a living), せい"" (energy, marriage, soul, spirit, wedding), せいりょく (energy, force, influence, might, potency, power, strength, vigor), せいき (animation, century, Christian era, consciousness, era, essence, established, formal, genital, happen, legal, legitimate, life, life energy, occurrence, prosperous period, regular, sanity, soberness, spirit, take place, true character, true heart, true spirit, verve, vigor), かつどうりょく (energy), かつりょく (energy), '"き (affectation, courage, energy, health, ostentation, pep, robust, spirit, stamina, standard, vanity, vigor, vim). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 생명 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | bioyrid bree. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | italityvay vitalidade (durability, sap, vigor, vigour, vim). (various references) vitalitate (gimp, ginger, life blood, pulse, vigor, vigour), viaţã (alacrity, animation, being, biography, career, cheerfulness, day, existence, life, living, pepper, reality, spirit, sprightliness), dinamism (dynamism, impetus). (various references) жизнеспособность (sap, viability). (various references) vitalnost, vitalitet, životnost, životna snaga (life blood, lifeblood). (various references) vitalidad (animal spirits, bounce, life, stamina). (various references) vitalitet. (various references) yaşama gücü (stamina, vigor, vigour), güç (ability, arduous, arm, baffling, capability, capacity, clout, clutch, clutches, command, control, difficult, dominance, energy, force, forcefulness, hard, intensity, iron, might, pep, pith, potency, potential, power, punch, rod, sinew, spirit, stamina, steam, sting, strength, stuffing, sword, tone, tricksy, vigor, vigour, vim, vis, zing), dirilik, dayanma gücü (bottom, resistance, stamina, staying power, strength), can (beloved, darling, esprit, heart, life, lifeblood, precious, soul, spirit). (various references) житт"вість, житт"ва сила, живучість. (various references) sức sống (green, heart-blood, life-breath, soul, starch, vim), sức mạnh (lustiness, mightiness, pithiness, sinew, starch, strength, vigour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Vitality" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: vitaley, vitali, Vitalite, vitalitys, vitatity, vivality. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vitality" (pronounced vīta"lutē) |
| 6 | -t a" l u t ē | brutality, centrality, fatality, hospitality, immortality, instrumentality, mentality, mortality, sentimentality, totality. |
| 5 | -a" l u t ē | abnormality, actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, causality, collegiality, commonality, conditionality, confidentiality, congeniality, constitutionality, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, duality, eventuality, extraterritoriality, finality, formality, frugality, functionality, generality, geniality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, illegality, immorality, impartiality, impersonality, individuality, informality, irrationality, legality, lethality, liberality, locality, materiality, modality, morality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, normality, originality, partiality, personality, plurality, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, rationality, reality, sensuality, sexuality, speciality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, triviality, universality, unreality, venality. |
| 4 | -l u t ē | ability, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, agility, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, civility, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, credulity, culpability, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, docility, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, equality, facility, fallibility, feasibility, fertility, fidelity, flammability, flexibility, fragility, frivolity, futility, gentility, gullibility, hostility, humility, immobility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incivility, incompatibility, incredulity, indestructibility, inequality, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irresponsibility, irritability, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, mobility, motility, nobility, nonutility, palatability, permeability, plausibility, polity, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, quality, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, seasonality, senility, sensibility, stability, sterility, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, tranquility, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, utility, variability, versatility, viability, virility, visibility, volatility, vulnerability. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, laity, laxity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-l-t-t-v-y" | |
-3 letters: atilt, laity, litai, lytta, vital, vitta. | |
-4 letters: alit, ilia, lati, tail, tali, tilt, titi, tivy, vail, vial, vita. | |
-5 letters: ail, ait, alt, att, ivy, lat, lav, lay, lit, tat, tav, til, tit, vat, via. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-l-t-t-v-y" | |
+2 letters: relativity, triviality, virtuality, volatility. | |
+3 letters: factitively, imitatively, iteratively, partitively, versatility, verticality. | |
+4 letters: imputatively, intravitally, meditatively, transitively. | |
+5 letters: atavistically, attributively, cultivability, inattentively, inevitability, interactively, overstability, qualitatively, reiteratively, terminatively, ultravirility. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 69 74 61 6C 69 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .. - .- .-.. .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01101001 01110100 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V i t a l i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0069 0074 0061 006C 0069 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5675866778758691 |
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