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Related / Similar Words: heart, liveliness, life, sprightliness, intent, purport, disembodied spirit, emotional state, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit up, inspirit

Definition:

a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one''s character;

an inclination or tendency of a certain kind; "he had a change of heart";

animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it";

the intended meaning of a communication;

any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings;

the vital principle or animating force within living things;

the state of a person''s emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection); "his emotional state depended on her opinion"; "he was in good spirits"; "his spirit rose";

the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason";

infuse with spirit; "The company spirited him up";

Hyponyms: courage, courageousness, bravery, cowardice, cowardliness, airiness, delicacy, alacrity, briskness, energy, vigor, vigour, vim, elan, esprit, breeziness, jauntiness, irrepressibility, buoyancy, high-spiritedness, exuberance, enthusiasm, ebullience, pep, peppiness, ginger, control, evil spirit, banshee, genie, jinni, jinnee, djinni, djinny, familiar, familiar spirit, peri, apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, specter, spectre, presence, numen, python, sylvan, silvan, thunderbird, zombi, zombie, zombi spirit, zombie spirit, soul, psyche, embarrassment, ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation, raptus, gratification, satisfaction, happiness, felicity, state, unhappiness, Hollywood, Zeitgeist

Attributes: lively

Derivational Morphology: spiritize, spiritise, spirit up, inspirit, aim, purpose, purport, propose, mean, intend, look, appear, seem, feel, liveliness, life, sprightliness, emotional state, tone, feeling, flavor, flavour, smell

Language Translations:
Chinese: 精神		Danish: ånd and liv and spiritus
Dutch: geest		Estonian: hing and piiritus and vaim
Finnish: alkoholi and henki		French: élan and esprit
German: Geist		Greek: πνεύμα and οινοπνευματώδες
Hebrew: רוח		Hungarian: alkohol and kedv
Italian: spirito		Japanese: 精神 and 妖怪
Korean: 넋 and 귀신 and 기풍 and 주정		Latin: genius and spiritus
Polish: alkohol and duch and dusza		Portuguese: álcool and espírito
Romanian: duh and spirit and suflet and tărie		Russian: алкоголь and дух and душа and привидение
Serbian: alkohol and duh		Slovak: duch
Slovene: duh and duša and špirit		Spanish: alcohol and espíritu
Swedish: anda and ande and sprit

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