Toughness vs. Vitality
Toughnessnoun
(uncountable) The state of being tough
Toughnessnoun
Resistance to fracture when stressed
Toughnessnoun
A formidable difficulty
Toughnessnoun
The quality or state of being tough.
Toughnessnoun
enduring strength and energy
Toughnessnoun
the property of being big and strong
Toughnessnoun
the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking
Toughnessnoun
impressive difficulty
Toughness
In materials science and metallurgy, toughness is the ability of a material to absorb energy and plastically deform without fracturing. One definition of material toughness is the amount of energy per unit volume that a material can absorb before rupturing.
Vitalitynoun
The capacity to live and develop.
Vitalitynoun
Energy or vigour.
Vitalitynoun
That which distinguishes living from nonliving things; life, animateness.
Vitalitynoun
The quality or state of being vital; the principle of life; vital force; animation; as, the vitality of eggs or vegetable seeds; the vitality of an enterprise.
Vitalitynoun
an energetic style
Vitalitynoun
a healthy capacity for vigorous activity;
Vitalitynoun
(biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms
Vitalitynoun
the property of being able to survive and grow;
Vitalitynoun
the state of being strong and active; energy
Vitalitynoun
the power giving continuance of life, present in all living things
Vitality
Vitality (from Middle French vitalité, from Latin vītālitās, from Latin vīta 'life') is the capacity to live, grow, or develop. More simply it is the property of having life.
