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Alertness vs Vigour - What's the difference?

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Alertness is a related term of vigour.


As nouns the difference between alertness and vigour

is that alertness is the quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity while vigour is active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.

alertness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.

    • vigour

    English

    Alternative forms

    * vigor (US) * vygour (obsolete)

    Noun

  • Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
  • * (rfdate) :
    • The vigour of this arm was never vain.
  • (biology) Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action.
    • A plant grows with vigour.
  • Strength; efficacy; potency.
  • * 1667 , :
    • But in the fruithful earth His beams, unactive else, their vigour find.

    Usage notes

    Vigour and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.

    Derived terms

    * envigorate * vigorous * hybrid vigor/hybrid vigour

    Related terms

    * vegetable * vigil