different between vigour vs buoyancy

English

Alternative forms

• vigor (US)
• vygour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English vigour, from Old French vigour, from vigor, from Latin vigor, from vigeo (“thrive, flourish”), from Proto-Indo-European [Term?].

Related to vigil.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?v???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?v???/
• Rhymes: -???(?)

Noun

vigour (countable and uncountable, plural vigours)

1. Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; energy.
2. (biology) Strength or force in animal or vegetable nature or action.

   A plant grows with vigour.

3. Strength; efficacy; potency.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:

     But in the fruithful earth: there first receiv'd / His beams, unactive else, their vigour find.

Usage notes

Vigour and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.

Derived terms

• envigorate
• vigorous
• hybrid vigor/hybrid vigour

Related terms

• vegetable
• vigil

Translations

Old French

Noun

vigour m (oblique plural vigours, nominative singular vigours, nominative plural vigour)

1. Alternative form of vigur

English

Etymology

buoyant +? -cy or buoy +? -ancy.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?b??.?n.si/

Noun

buoyancy (countable and uncountable, plural buoyancies)

1. (physics) The upward force on a body immersed or partly immersed in a fluid.
2. The ability of an object to stay afloat in a fluid.
3. (by extension) Resilience or cheerfulness.

Related terms

• buoyant
• buoy
• buoy up

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Archimedes' principle