Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun elan_vital

1 sense of elan vital

Sense 1
life force, vital force, vitality, elan vital -- ((biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms)
       => force -- ((physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "force equals mass times acceleration")