animating force
What brings life
An animating force is whatever brings something to life or drives it into action.
The phrase often appears in philosophical or spiritual contexts—the soul as the animating force of the body, curiosity as the animating force behind scientific inquiry.
Her passion was the animating force of the whole project.
It implies not just motion but purposeful vitality.
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
- soulInnermost animating essence
- divine breathDeity's animating exhalation
- breathAir taken in
- breath of lifeAnimating essence within beings
vitality · life energy · vital spark · spark · energy · essence · drive · impulse · motivation · chi · prana · vigor · dynamism · inner fire · momentum · moving spirit · pulse · heartbeat
- spiritghost, specter, phantom, apparition, soul
- life forcevital spark, chi, qi, life energy, ki
animating forcedestructive force
Power causing widespread damage
entropy · decay · dissolution · corruption · mortification
animating, animate, animated, animation, animator, animates, inanimate, reanimate, reanimated