The condition, quality, or fact of being a living person or animal; human or animal existence. Cf. soul, n. 1.

Vivacity, animation; (also) †vitality (obsolete).

The living form, original. Also: the condition of being alive; life.

= liveliness, n. (in various senses). Common in the 17th cent. In later use poetic and archaic.

The state of being animate or alive; life, vitality. Now rare and passing into sense 4a.

Manifestation of the principle of life; vitality.

The quality, condition, or fact of being alive or living; vital force; vigour, vivacity, vividness.

The state or fact of being animate or animated. rare.

The quality or condition of being alive or animate; animate existence; an instance of this.