LIFE FORCE Synonyms

• (Jungian psychology) the inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious

• the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing

• the air that is inhaled and exhaled in respiration

• a short respite

• an indirect suggestion

• a slight movement of the air

• the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977

• (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs

• forceful exertion

• enterprising or ambitious drive

• an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)

• a healthy capacity for vigorous activity

• any source of usable power

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted

• the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

• a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor

• the blood considered as the seat of vitality

• an essential or life-giving force

• the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life

• a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential

• deep feeling or emotion

• the human embodiment of something

• a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s

• the vital principle or animating force within living things

• the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

• a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character

• any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings

• the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection)

• the intended meaning of a communication

• animation and energy in action or expression

• an inclination or tendency of a certain kind

• infuse with spirit

• (biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms

• (biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms