| Main Entry: | essence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heart, significance |
Synonyms: |
aspect, attribute, backbone, base, basis, be-all and end-all, being, bottom, bottom line, burden, caliber, character, chief constituent, constitution, core, crux, element, entity, essentia, essentiality, fiber, form, fundamentals, germ, grain, kernel, life, lifeblood, main idea, marrow, meaning, meat*, name of game, nature, nitty-gritty, nub, nucleus, pith, point, principle, property, quality, quiddity, quintessence, reality, root, soul, spirit, structure, stuff, substance, timber, vein, virtuality |
| Main Entry: | life |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animation, spirit |
Synonyms: |
activity, being, breath, brio, dash, energy, enthusiasm, entity, esprit, essence, excitement, get-up-and-go, go*, growth, heart, high spirits, impulse, lifeblood, liveliness, oomph, sentience, soul, sparkle, verve, viability, vigor, vitality, vivacity, zest*, zing, élan vital, élan |
Antonyms: |
inanimacy |
| Main Entry: | quintessence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | essence, core |
Synonyms: |
apotheosis, bottom, distillation, epitome, essentiality, extract, gist, heart, kernel, last word, lifeblood, marrow, pith, quiddity, soul, spirit, stuff, substance, ultimate, virtuality |
Antonyms: |
extra |
| Main Entry: | whole blood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unmodified blood |
Synonyms: |
arterial blood, blood, lifeblood, venous blood |
| Main Entry: | life |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
above ground, aerobic, agamic, agrestian, alive, all alive and kicking, anaerobic, animated, archesporial, autacoidal, azzardly, bacillary, basal, bimanous, biodegradable, biomorphic, bionomic, biped, bircrural, blissom, breathing, celative, crepitous, cryptic, dacryopyostic, deglutitious, diallel, digenous, digoneutic, ditokous, diurnal, dizygotic, edentate, endothermic, epigamic, exogenous, gamic, haploid, hematic, hyperosmic, impar, in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living, indefatigable, lively, living, luxuriant, mammillated, marine, mercurial, metapneustic, microsmatic, motor, multilocular, muriform, myogenic, nizzertit, on this side of the grave, oviparous, ovoviviparous, palamate, paratonic, parthenic, parturient, pelagic, promethean, quick, rank, recuperated, refreshed, refreshing, ruttish, sedentary, sphygmic, spodogenous, stenobathic, tenacious of life, totipotent, untired, unwearied, urled, vegete, vital, vivacious, vivified, vivifying, yeld, zoetic
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| Concept: | Life. |
| Category: | 1. Vitality; vitality in general |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
life, vitality, viability; animation; vital spark, vital flame, soul, spirit., respiration, wind; breath of life, breath of one's nostrils; lifeblood; Archeus; existence., vivification; oxygen; vital air, vital force; vitalization; revivification; Prometheus; life to come (destiny)., [Science of life] physiology, biology; animal ecology., nourishment, staff of life (food) [more].
-verbs
be alive; live, breathe, respire; subsist (exist); walk the earth; "strut and fret one's hour upon the stage" [Macbeth]; be spared., see the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw breath, fetch the breath of life, draw the breath of life; quicken; revive; come to life., give birth to (produce); bring to life, put into life, vitalize; vivify, vivificate; reanimate (restore); keep alive, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door; support life., have nine lives like a cat.
-adjectives
living, alive; in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living; on this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animated; animative; lively (active); all alive and kicking; tenacious of life., vital, vitalic; vivifying, vivified; viable, zoetic; Promethean.
-adverbs
vivendi causa.
-phrases
atqui vivere militare est [Seneca]; non est vivre sed valere vita [Martial].
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Antonyms: |
death |
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