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elan vital is a noun meaning "(biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms". It carries one recorded sense.
(biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms
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Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for elan vital come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.