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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | energy, spirit |
| Synonyms: | animation, ardor, audacity, bang, being, bloom, bounce, clout, continuity, drive, endurance, existence, exuberance, fervor, force, get-up-and-go, go, guts*, intensity, life, liveliness, lustiness, pep, pizzazz*, power, pulse, punch, robustness, snap, sparkle, spunk*, stamina, starch, steam, strength, stuff*, venturesomeness, verve, vigor, vim, vivaciousness, vivacity, zest, zing, zip |
| Antonyms: | apathy, lethargy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | animation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liveliness; activity |
| Synonyms: | action, ardor, bounce, brio, briskness, buoyancy, dash, dynamism, ebullience, elation, energy, enthusiasm, esprit, excitement, exhilaration, fervor, gaiety, high spirits, life, oomph, passion, pep, sparkle, spirit, sprightliness, verve, vibrancy, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity, zap, zeal, zest, zing, zip, élan |
| Antonyms: | discouragement, dullness, inactivity |
| Main Entry: | being |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | existence |
| Synonyms: | actuality, animation, journey, life, living, presence, reality, subsistence, vitality, world |
| Antonyms: | deadness |
| Main Entry: | bounce |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spring |
| Synonyms: | animation, bound, dynamism, elasticity, energy, give, go, life, liveliness, pep, rebound, recoil, resilience, springiness, vigor, vitality, vivacity, zip |
| Main Entry: | constitution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical make-up and health |
| Synonyms: | architecture, build, character, composition, construction, content, contents, design, disposition, essence, form, formation, frame, habit, habitus, nature, physique, structure, temper, temperament, type, vitality |
| Main Entry: | continuance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | duration |
| Synonyms: | constancy, continuation, endurance, extension, guts*, longevity, period, permanence, perpetuation, protraction, run, survival, term, vitality |
| Antonyms: | arrest, end, ending, finish, hindrance, obstruction, stop, stoppage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | continuity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | progression |
| Synonyms: | chain, cohesion, connection, constancy, continuance, continuousness, continuum, dovetailing, durability, duration, endurance, extension, flow, interrelationship, linking, perpetuity, persistence, prolongation, protraction, sequence, stability, stamina, succession, survival, train, uniting, unity, vitality, whole |
| Antonyms: | break, discontinuity, intermittence, interruption, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | drive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's will to achieve |
| Synonyms: | ambition, clout, effort, energy, enterprise, fire in belly, get-up-and-go, goods*, gumption*, guts*, impellent, impetus, impulse, initiative, momentum, motivation, motive, moxie*, pep, pressure, punch*, push*, right stuff, spunk*, steam, stuff*, vigor, vitality, what it takes, zip |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ebullience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm |
| Synonyms: | agitation, animation, buoyancy, effervescence, effusiveness, elation, excitement, exhilaration, exuberance, exuberancy, ferment, gaiety, high spirits, high-spiritedness, liveliness, vitality, vivaciousness, vivacity, zest |
| Antonyms: | apathy, disinterest |
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