What is another word for vital force?

Pronunciation: [vˈa͡ɪtə͡l fˈɔːs] (IPA)

Vital force is a term used to describe the energy that sustains life. This energy is often referred to with various synonyms such as life force, chi, prana, or vitalism. Life force is a term used in many cultures, including Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, and traditional African medicine. Chi is a term used in Chinese medicine and martial arts to describe the energy that flows through the body. Prana is a term used in Indian medicine to describe the life force that sustains the body. Vitalism is a philosophy that emphasizes the importance of vital force in the maintenance of life. These terms all suggest the idea that life is more than just physical matter, but also energy or spirit that animates all living things.

What are the hypernyms for Vital force?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Vital force

  • From the long range point of view, I do not know of anything we can do more important than to make some contribution to the preservation of religion as a vital force in America.
    Louis Finkelstein
  • Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
    Daniel De Leon
  • Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which accumulate around and tend to drag down the advance of lifeCivilization is mutual aid and self-defense; culture is the judge, the lawbook and the forces of Law & OrdureCivilization flows; culture thickens and coagulates, like tired, sick, stifled blood.
    Edward Abbey
  • States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force.
    John Lancaster Spalding
  • Out of the chaos that followed the so-called final settlement of the slavery question in 1850 arose the great political antislavery party, whose vital force is in the conscience of its supporters, whose central idea is the original American principle, the equality of human rights, and whose unswerving policy is the planting of the government ineradicably upon that principle. It is a party of ideas and interests combined. It holds with Jefferson that God has no attribute which can take part with slavery. It looks anxiously with Washington for the means by which it can be abolished. It seeks with the framers of the Northwest Ordinance to exclude it from the territories, because it is at war with the essential principles of the government and with the expressed intention of the Constitution
    George William Curtis

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