life force
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- noun
- /laɪf fɔrs/
- Archaic
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fuerza vital
- In ancient Egypt, everyone had a ka, a creative life force that came into existence in the womb as a spiritual double of the person that lived on after the body died.
- essential life force
- vital life force
In other words, he is the life force that keeps us going.
- In other words, he is the life force that keeps us going.
- The breath is the life force of our source of divinity.
- But when you eat a dead animal, the life force had left that animal when it died.
- I can't even work on you until I work on your life force.
- They alienated so much of their own life force.
- Breath is tied to all chi, all energy, all life force.
- It's closing off your life force.
- The guilt, the shame, the low vibe that sucks you down and that is taking away your life force that is killing your confidence.
- That long trail off to the relationship no longer working looks like it ends up slowly losing its life force and it ends.
- It's to learn how to deal with the depth of my own Physiology, with my own soul, with the life force itself.
- So if you can turn all the pain into life force energy, you know, you feel this inspiration in you that will keep you going.
- It contains all of the life force, the soul and the energy to deliver the gifts that you came on this planet to deliver.
- And so anyone who lives there agrees to to put their focus and life force into that.
- And the dopamine system is the life force system.
Examples
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The breath is the life force of our source of divinity.
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What's actually blocking your life force and your happiness?
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In other words, he is the life force that keeps us going.
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So if you can turn all the pain into life force energy, you know, you feel this inspiration in you that will keep you going.
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Illness occurs when an essential life force becomes blocked.
Academic text (2003) -
Mother Earth rolls and turns towards the sun, the waters flow, life force connecting us all.
Academic text (2004) -
It contains all of the life force, the soul and the energy to deliver the gifts that you came on this planet to deliver.
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Pulling these images together, she comments on the presence of water in the human body as in nature generally, and how people seem to be drawn to water, not simply to sustain life but to somehow identify with an essential life force.
Academic text (2004) -
The soul, which was said to reside in the blood, contained the life force of the individual; without it, a person would have no will to live.
Academic text (2004) -
The ancient philosophers believed that the life force was essential for the growth and evolution of all living beings.
Synonyms
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Old idea that a force that is not physical makes living things grow
A power once thought to make living things grow and stay alive
A supposed force that makes living things grow and act
A supposed life force that makes living things grow and change
A life force said to affect health
How Vital
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning (vital energy or power that sustains life, used in games as a health resource) is directly composed from 'life' (living existence) + 'force' (power/energy/influence). This is a common, cross-linguistic compound (e.g. "vital force", concepts like qi/chi) and follows straightforward compositional patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words will likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Life force comes from old ideas about a hidden energy inside people and animals. People imagined a 'breath' or 'spark' that made the body move, so life and force together mean the inner power that keeps something alive.