life-force
Animating energy within
Life-force is the vital energy believed to animate living things—what distinguishes the living from the dead.
The concept appears across cultures and spiritual traditions: chi, prana, élan vital.
In everyday use, it describes someone's essential vitality or animating spirit: Her life-force seemed diminished after the illness.
He had a tremendous life-force that filled every room he entered.
Innermost animating essence
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
- quintessencePurest embodiment of something
- coreCentral essential portion
- animusDeep-seated hostility
Greek letter or energy
- pranaVital breath energy
- qiVital life energy
- kundaliniDormant spinal life force
- chakraSpiritual node in body
aura · mana · atman · pneuma · spiritus · anima · vital spark · breath
Active physical strength
- animationTechnique creating movement illusion
- zestKeen enjoyment or peel
- vivacityAnimated spirit or energy
- exuberanceLively, unrestrained enthusiasm
dynamism · verve · stamina · robustness · endurance · resilience · liveliness · energy
soul
Innermost animating essence
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
- quintessencePurest embodiment of something
- coreCentral essential portion
chi
Greek letter or energy
chakra · aura · mana · atman · pneuma · spiritus · anima · vital spark · breath · shakti
vigor
Active physical strength
- animationTechnique creating movement illusion
- zestKeen enjoyment or peel
- vivacityAnimated spirit or energy
exuberance · dynamism · verve · stamina · robustness · endurance · resilience · liveliness · energy · vibrancy
- spiritghost, specter, phantom, apparition, soul
life-forcedeath
Cessation of life
lifelessness · inertness · deadness · entropy · stagnation
life-forceanti-life
Opposing existence or vitality
nothingness · annihilation · soullessness · void · spiritual void
life-forcedeath wish
Urge toward self-destruction
apathy · exhaustion · lethargy · listlessness · ennui
live, life, force, lively, lifeless, enforce, reinforce, fortify, vitalize