life force
Spirit within beings
Life force is the vital energy believed to animate living things—the spark that distinguishes the living from the dead.
The concept appears across cultures and philosophies: chi in Chinese tradition, prana in Hindu thought, élan vital in Bergson's philosophy.
More loosely, someone's life force is their essential vitality or spirit: The illness drained her life force.
He had a life force that filled every room he entered.
Greek letter or energy
- pranaVital breath energy
- qiVital life energy
- auraPerceived emanation surrounding someone
- soulInnermost animating essence
anima · spirit · quintessence · shakti · mana · pneuma · élan vital · kundalini
Active physical strength
- staminaCapacity for sustained effort
- vitalityCapacity for spirited existence
- animationTechnique creating movement illusion
- livelinessAnimated, energetic quality
dynamism · zest · vivacity · exuberance · verve · sprightliness · buoyancy · brio
Spiritual node in body
- auraPerceived emanation surrounding someone
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
- meditationFocused attention practice
awakening · consciousness · energy healing · reiki · acupuncture · meridians · third eye · astral
Cellular nutrient conversion
- ATPCell's energy molecule
- mitochondriaCell's energy-producing organelles
- respirationGas exchange in organisms
- bioelectricityCurrent in living tissue
photosynthesis · homeostasis · cellular energy · bioenergetics · oxidation · organelles · cytoplasm · enzymes
chi
Greek letter or energy
soul · anima · spirit · quintessence · shakti · mana · pneuma · élan vital · kundalini · numen
vigor
Active physical strength
- staminaCapacity for sustained effort
- vitalityCapacity for spirited existence
- animationTechnique creating movement illusion
liveliness · dynamism · zest · vivacity · exuberance · verve · sprightliness · buoyancy · brio · pep
chakra
Spiritual node in body
- auraPerceived emanation surrounding someone
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
meditation · awakening · consciousness · energy healing · reiki · acupuncture · meridians · third eye · astral · ethereal
metabolism
Cellular nutrient conversion
- ATPCell's energy molecule
- mitochondriaCell's energy-producing organelles
- respirationGas exchange in organisms
bioelectricity · photosynthesis · homeostasis · cellular energy · bioenergetics · oxidation · organelles · cytoplasm · enzymes · biosynthesis
- vitalityvitality, vigor, vim, verve, pep
- existenceexistence, being, lives, reality, actuality
- spiritghost, specter, phantom, apparition, soul
- spiritualitysacred, enlightened, divine, holy, spiritual growth
- "life" phraseslifeblood, nightlife, wildlife, lowlife, highlife
- TaoismTao, Taoism, Daoism, Laozi, Lao Tzu
life forcedeath
Cessation of life
lifelessness · inertness · deadness · death wish · stagnation
life forcevoid
Without legal effect
nothingness · spiritual death · anti-life · soullessness · emptiness
life forceentropy
Quantified chaos in systems
dissolution · chaos · decay · destruction · anti-life
life, force, lifetime, lifestyle, lifelong, lifelike, fortified, lifespan, vitalize