Vim

//vɪm// noun

noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Ready vitality and vigour. uncountable

    "But he was, doubtless, totally unconscious that he was to be the chief personage in this most important story, or he would have acted out his real nature with all the vim and pathos which heroes always manifest in like circumstances."

  2. 2
    an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) wordnet
  3. 3
    a healthy capacity for vigorous activity wordnet

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energyenergyactionactivityaggressivenessamperage

Example

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"The high percentage of oxygen makes people full of vim and vigor."

Etymology

Possibly from Latin vim, accusative singular of vīs (“force, power, strength; (New Latin) energy, force”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“to chase, pursue”); compare English vis); but perhaps a modern expressive formation.

Related phrases

vim and vigorvim vitae

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