| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | vi·tal·i·ty |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  v -t l  -t |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. vi·tal·i·ties
1. The capacity to live, grow, or develop: plants that lost their vitality when badly pruned. 2. Physical or intellectual vigor; energy. See synonyms at vigor. 3. The characteristic, principle, or force that distinguishes living things from nonliving things. 4. Power to survive: the vitality of an old tradition.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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