life breath

Soul's essential force

Life breath is the breath that sustains life—the vital force or animating spirit.

The phrase often appears in religious or poetic contexts describing creation or the essence of existence: God breathed the life breath into Adam.

It can also mean something essential to survival or vitality: Music was the life breath of the community.

Related

prana · chi · vital signs · exhale · inhale · animating · pulse · heartbeat · living · air · respiration · vigor · second wind · spark · force · energy · wind · lungs

Categories
Opposites
vitality/animation

life breathdeath

Cessation of life

death rattle · lifelessness · mortality · extinction · expiration

spiritual essence

life breathspiritual death

Eternal separation from God

soullessness · emptiness · void · corruption · oblivion

Family

life, breath, live, lives, lived, lively, liveliness, lifeless, lifetime

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G