different between vitality vs lifeful

English

Etymology

vital +? -ity, from Middle French vitalité, from Latin vitalitas (“vital force, life”), from vitalis (“vital”); see vital.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va??tæl?ti/, /va??tæl?ti/

Noun

vitality (countable and uncountable, plural vitalities)

1. The capacity to live and develop.
2. Energy or vigour.
3. That which distinguishes living from nonliving things; life, animateness.

Related terms

• devive
• revive
• survive
• viable
• vim and vigor
• vital
• vivid
• vitalism

Translations

Further reading

• vitality in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• vitality in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Alternative forms

• lyfull (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From life +? -ful.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la?ff?l/, /?la?ffl?/
• Hyphenation: life?ful

Adjective

lifeful (comparative more lifeful, superlative most lifeful)

1. Bestowing life; enlivening. [from 13th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.11:

     Her gentle hart […] Began some smacke of comfort new to tast, / Like lyfull heat to nummed senses brought […].
2. Full of vitality; lively and exuberant.
3. Characteristic of life and living things.

Adverb

lifeful (comparative more lifeful, superlative most lifeful)

1. In a lifeful manner; full of life.
   • 1818, John Keats, Endymion, I:

     A colour grew / Upon his cheek, while thus he lifeful spake.

Etymology 2

life +? -ful.

Noun

lifeful (plural lifefuls)

1. A quantity that fills a lifetime.