vital /vīˈt(ə)l/

1. Characteristic of life, or of living things
2. Supporting or necessary to life
3. Essential
4. Extremely important
5. Relating to life, birth, and death
6. Fatal to life (obsolete)
7. Full of life, lively, energetic
8. Being a manifestation of life (biology)
9. Life-giving, invigorating (poetic)
10. Animate, living (archaic)
11. Capable of living (obsolete)

1. (pl; rarely in sing) the interior organs essential for life
2. The part of any whole necessary for its existence (obsolete)

viˈtalism noun

The doctrine that there is a vital force (qv below)

viˈtalist noun

A person who holds this doctrine

vitalisˈtic adjective

vitalisˈtically adverb

vitality /-talˈ/ noun (pl vitalˈities)

1. The state or quality of being vital
2. The quality of being fully or intensely alive
3. The capacity to endure and flourish
4. Animation, liveliness
5. The principle of life, power of living
6. The state of being alive
7. A living or vital thing or quality

vitalizāˈtion or vitalisāˈtion noun

viˈtalize or viˈtalise transitive verb

1. To give life to
2. To stimulate activity in
3. To give vigour to
4. To make lifelike

viˈtalizer or viˈtaliser noun

viˈtalizing or viˈtalising adjective

viˈtally adverb

viˈtascope noun

An early form of motion-picture projector

viˈtative adjective

Concerned with the preservation of life

viˈtativeness noun

Love of life, assigned by the phrenologists to a protuberance under the ear

vital air noun (obsolete)

Oxygen

vital capacity noun

The volume of air that can be expelled from the lungs after taking the deepest possible breath

vital force noun

The force on which the phenomena of life in animals and plants were thought to depend, distinct from chemical and mechanical forces operating in them

vital functions plural noun

The bodily functions that are essential to life, such as the circulation of the blood

vital principle noun

1. The principle (the anima mundi) which according to the doctrine of vitalism, gives life to all nature
2. A principle that directs all the actions and functions of living bodies

vital signs plural noun

(the level or rate of) breathing, heartbeat, etc

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