Impetus vs Vigour - What's the difference?
impetus | vigour |
Something that impels, a stimulating factor.
* 2011 , Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15195384.stm]
A force, either internal or external, that impels; an impulse.
The force or energy associated with a moving body; a stimulus.
An activity in response to a stimulus.
Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
* (rfdate) :
(biology) Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action.
Strength; efficacy; potency.
* 1667 , :
As nouns the difference between impetus and vigour
is that impetus is while vigour is active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.impetus
English
Noun
(es)- The outbreak of World War II in 1939 gave a new impetus to receiver development.
- In a single moment Montenegro and their supporters were given fresh impetus and encouragement. Beciraj tested Hart with a low shot before teenager Phil Jones, on his England debut, suffered an anxious moment when Stevan Jovetic went down under his challenge, leaving the youngster clearly relieved to see referee Stark wave away Montenegro's appeals.
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* ----vigour
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Alternative forms
* vigor (US) * vygour (obsolete)Noun
- The vigour of this arm was never vain.
- A plant grows with vigour.
- But in the fruithful earth His beams, unactive else, their vigour find.