vitality

UK/vaɪˈtælɪti/US/vaɪˈtælɪti/

nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,719 of 15,258neutral

Vitality is the energy and liveliness that mark healthy life. Full of vitality.

It is used of people, of towns and of institutions in the same admiring way. Vitality is noticed most when it goes, which is why the word appears so often in obituaries.

Definitions of vitality

1nounvitalityThe energy and liveliness that mark healthy life.C1
“The vitality of the place disappeared when the works closed.”

vitality is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin vitalitas comes from vitalis, of life, from vita, life; the same root gives vital and vitamin.

Proto-Indo-European
*gʷeyh₃-
Latin
vitalitas — vital force, life
Middle French
vitalité
English, today
vitality

Built from

vitalis · Latin — vital

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

vitality in the wild

A vitality curve is a performance management practice that calls for individuals to be ranked or rated against their coworkers.
Vitality curve
To experience vitality is regarded as a basic psychological drive and, in philosophy, a component to the will to live.
Vitality
Urban vitality is the quality of spaces in cities that attracts diverse groups of people for a range of activities at different times of the day.
Urban vitality
Such spaces are often perceived as being alive, lively, or vibrant, in contrast with low-vitality areas, which may repel people and be perceived as unsafe.
Urban vitality

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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