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Life

The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that state of an animal or plant in which all or any of its organs are capable of performing all or any of their functions; -- used of all animal and vegetable organisms.

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Broader term 21

Account 76% connected

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

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Animation 76% connected

The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive.

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Being 76% connected

of Be

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Chronicle 76% connected

An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time.

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Existence 76% connected

The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existe…

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Experience 76% connected

Trial, as a test or experiment.

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History 76% connected

A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a descr…

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Individual 76% connected

Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.

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Invigoration 76% connected

The act of invigorating, or the state of being invigorated.

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Mortal 76% connected

Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.

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motivation 76% connected

The reasons and energy that drive someone to act.

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Motive 76% connected

That which moves; a mover.

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Need 76% connected

A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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Period 76% connected

A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a divis…

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Person 76% connected

A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic represe…

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Sentence 76% connected

Sense; meaning; significance.

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Somebody 76% connected

A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person.

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Soul 76% connected

Sole.

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Story 76% connected

A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered…

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Time 76% connected

Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.

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Vivification 76% connected

The act of vivifying, or the state of being vivified; restoration of life; revival.

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Airiness 76% connected

The state or quality of being airy; openness or exposure to the air; as, the airiness of a country seat.

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Alacrity 76% connected

A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the ene…

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Autobiography 76% connected

A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self.

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Biology 76% connected

The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue.…

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Breeziness 76% connected

State of being breezy.

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Briskness 76% connected

Liveliness; vigor in action; quickness; gayety; vivacity; effervescence.

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Buoyancy 76% connected

The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compar…

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Delicacy 76% connected

The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like.

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Ebullience 76% connected

Alt. of Ebulliency

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Elan 76% connected

Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.

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Endurance 76% connected

A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.

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Energy 76% connected

Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer the…

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Enthusiasm 76% connected

Inspiration as if by a divine or superhuman power; ecstasy; hence, a conceit of divine possession and revelation, or of being directly subject to som…

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Esprit 76% connected

Spirit.

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Exuberance 76% connected

The state of being exuberant; an overflowing quantity; a copious or excessive production or supply; superabundance; richness; as, an exuberance of jo…

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Ghetto 76% connected

The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city.

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Ginger 76% connected

A plant of the genus Zingiber, of the East and West Indies. The species most known is Z. officinale.

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Hagiography 76% connected

Same Hagiographa.

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Hereafter 76% connected

In time to come; in some future time or state.

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Jauntiness 76% connected

The quality of being jaunty.

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Muscularity 76% connected

The state or quality of being muscular.

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Pertness 76% connected

The quality or state of being pert.

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Profile 76% connected

An outline, or contour; as, the profile of an apple.

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Skin 76% connected

The external membranous integument of an animal.

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Smartness 76% connected

The quality or state of being smart.

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Survival 76% connected

A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving.

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Vigor 76% connected

Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.

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Vigour 76% connected

active strength of body or mind

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Vim 76% connected

Power; force; energy; spirit; activity; vigor.

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Lively 74% connected

Endowed with or manifesting life; living.

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Lively 74% connected

Endowed with or manifesting life; living.

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Component part 7

Age 70% connected

The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.

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Birth 70% connected

The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

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Death 70% connected

The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

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Demise 70% connected

Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal author…

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Dying 70% connected

of Die

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Eld 70% connected

Old.

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Past 70% connected

Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences.

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Attribute 8

Alive 66% connected

Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

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Alive 66% connected

Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

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Dead 66% connected

Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to…

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Dead 66% connected

Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to…

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Live 66% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

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Live 66% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

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Lively 66% connected

Endowed with or manifesting life; living.

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Lively 66% connected

Endowed with or manifesting life; living.

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Synonym 7

Animation 92% connected

The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive.

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Biography 92% connected

The written history of a person's life.

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Lifetime 92% connected

The time that life continues.

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Liveliness 92% connected

The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravit…

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Living 92% connected

of Live

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Spirit 92% connected

Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.

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Sprightliness 92% connected

The quality or state of being sprightly; liveliness; life; briskness; vigor; activity; gayety; vivacity.

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