vitalizationn.
/ˌvʌɪtəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌvʌɪtl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌvaɪdl̩əˈzeɪʃən/, /ˌvaɪdlˌaɪˈzeɪʃən/ The action or process of vitalizing, or the state of being vitalized; an instance of this.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > giving of life > [noun]
life-giving1573
animation1597
enliving1602
quickenancea1617
vivification1626
information1630
enlivening1674
vitalization1846
vivifying1860
interanimation1925
1846 J. Hudson in Rep. & Papers Bot. (Ray Soc.) 306 The phenomenon of the vitalization of cells is brought about only by an excessive endosmose or nutrition.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxxvi. 233 Her love..might result in vitalisations that would inflict upon others what she had bewailed as a misfortune to herself.
a1901 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality (1903) I. p. xxxiv An increased subliminal vitalization of the organism.
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