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vim

US/vɪm/ uncommon

noun

1.

a healthy capacity for vigorous activity

  • “jogging works off my excess energy”
  • “he seemed full of vim and vigor”
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2.

an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)

  • “his writing conveys great energy”
  • “a remarkable muscularity of style”
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Origin

Possibly from Latin vim, accusative singular of vīs (“force, power, strength; (New Latin) energy, force”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“to chase, pursue”); compare English vis); but perhaps a modern expressive formation.

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