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.

   The city’s cultural vitality impressed the visitors.

   He maintained his vitality well into old age.

   youthful vitality

   full of vitality

   economic vitality

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.