different between vim vs vivacity

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /v?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

vim (uncountable)

1. Ready vitality and vigour. [from mid 19th c.]

   Synonyms: energy, go, pep, pizzazz, verve, zest

Derived terms

• vim and vigor
• vimless

Related terms

• vis
• violence
• violate

Translations

See also

• Thesaurus:enthusiasm

References

Further reading

• vim (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “vim”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• IVM, VMI

Latin

Noun

vim

1. accusative singular of v?s

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

vim

1. imperative of vima

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?v?/

Verb

vim

1. First-person singular (eu) preterite indicative of vir
2. (Brazil, proscribed) Alternative form of vir when used with auxiliary verbs

English

Etymology

vivac(ious) +? -ity, borrowed from Latin v?v?cit?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??væs?ti/
• Hyphenation: vi?va?ci?ty

Noun

vivacity (countable and uncountable, plural vivacities)

1. The quality or state of being vivacious.
   • 1612, Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, “Of Youth and Age,”^[1]

     But reposed natures may do well in youth. […] On the other side, heat and vivacity in age, is an excellent composition for business.

   • 1738, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part I, Section III. Of the Ideas of the Memory and the Imagination,^[2]

     We find by experience, that when any impression has been present with the mind, it again makes its appearance there as an idea; and this it may do after two different ways: either when in its new appearance it retains a considerable degree of its first vivacity, and is somewhat intermediate betwixt an impression and an idea: or when it entirely loses that vivacity, and is a perfect idea.

   • 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield, Chapter 1,^[3]

     The one entertained me with her vivacity when I was gay, the other with her sense when I was serious.

   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Chapter 2,^[4]

     In the name of truth and common sense, why should not one woman acknowledge that she can take more exercise than another? or, in other words, that she has a sound constitution; and why to damp innocent vivacity, is she darkly to be told, that men will draw conclusions which she little thinks of?

   • 1819, Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor, Chapter 5,^[5]

     Some secret sorrow, or the brooding spirit of some moody passion, had quenched the light and ingenuous vivacity of youth in a countenance singularly fitted to display both […]

   • 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Chapter 2,^[6]

     […] an extraordinary observer might have seen that the chin was very pointed and pronounced; that the big eyes were full of spirit and vivacity; that the mouth was sweet-lipped and expressive; that the forehead was broad and full; in short, our discerning extraordinary observer might have concluded that no commonplace soul inhabited the body of this stray woman-child […]

Synonyms

• liveliness
• vivaciousness

Translations

Anagrams

• vacivity