life forces
What drives organisms
Life forces are the vital energies believed to animate living things—the spark that distinguishes the living from the dead.
The concept appears across cultures and traditions: chi in Chinese philosophy, prana in Hindu thought, élan vital in Western vitalism.
In everyday use, life force often describes someone's essential vitality or spirit: Cancer couldn't diminish her life force.
The plural typically refers to these energies collectively or to multiple traditions describing them.
- astralRelating to stars
- sparkTiny fiery particle
- breathAir taken in
- bloodBody's oxygen carrier
- beatRhythmic pulse or strike
celestial · cosmic · élan vital · vital spark · essence · divine · heavenly · vitality · consciousness · quintessences · soul · prana · chi · kundalini · animation · animating spirit · intangible · shakti
- Biodynamicscow horns, preparations, cow horn, stirring, burial practices
life forceslifelessness
Quality of having no animation
death · inertia · deadness · stagnation · entropy
life, force, lives, live, lived, lively, liveliness, lifelong, lifelike