vitality Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an energetic style
    verve.
  2. noun a healthy capacity for vigorous activity
    energy; vim.
    • jogging works off my excess energy
    • he seemed full of vim and vigor
  3. noun (biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms
    elan vital; life force; vital force.
  4. noun the property of being able to survive and grow
    animation.
    • the vitality of a seed

WordNet

Vi*tal"i*ty noun
Etymology
L. vitalitas: cf. F. vitalité.
Definitions
  1. The quality or state of being vital; the principle of life; vital force; animation; as, the vitality of eggs or vegetable seeds; the vitality of an enterprise.

Webster 1913