vitality

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

• IPA^(key): /vaɪˈtælɪti/, /vaɪˈtæləti/, (now rare) /vɪ-/^[1]

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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.

• “vitality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “vitality”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.