elan vital
noun
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- adverb
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Sense 1 noun
(biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms
Types & categories
- force hypernym
Related & opposite
- life-sustaining derivation
- biology domain topic
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | life-sustaining |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | biology |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | force |