VITALITY

vitality, verve

(noun) an energetic style

animation, vitality

(noun) the property of being able to survive and grow; “the vitality of a seed”

energy, vim, vitality

(noun) a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; “jogging works off my excess energy”; “he seemed full of vim and vigor”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

vitality (countable and uncountable, plural vitalities)

The capacity to live and develop.

Energy or vigour.

That which distinguishes living from nonliving things; life, animateness.

Source: Wiktionary


Vi*tal"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. vitalitas: cf. F. vitalité.]

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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SYCAMORE

(noun) Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn


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The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.

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