Strength vs Vim - What's the difference?
strength | vim | Related terms |
The quality or degree of being strong.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* , chapter=5
, title= The intensity of a force or power; potency.
* 1699 , ,
The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.
* Bible, (Psalms) xlvi. 1
* (Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
A positive attribute.
(obsolete) A strong place; a stronghold.
(obsolete) To give strength to; to strengthen.
* 1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Job IV:
Ready vitality and vigor.
* 1999 , , Stardust , p. 58 (2001 Perennial paperback edition)
Strength is a related term of vim.
As verbs the difference between strength and vim
is that strength is (obsolete) to give strength to; to strengthen while vim is .As a noun strength
is the quality or degree of being strong.strength
English
Noun
(en noun)- Our castle's strength will laugh a siege to scorn.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength —all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
- God is our refuge and strength .
- Certainly there is not a greater strength against temptation.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* fortitude * power * ability * capability * potency * expertiseAntonyms
* (The quality of being strong) weakness * (A positive attribute) weaknessDerived terms
* bond strength * compressive strength * crushing strength * dielectic strength * fatigue strength * field strength * full-strength * impact strength * industrial-strength * inner strength * ionic strength * party strength * pillar of strength * relative strength * shear strength * strengthen * strengthening * strengthful * strengthless * strengthy * superstrength * tensile strength * tower of strength * ultimate strength * understrength * wet strength * yield strengthVerb
(en verb)- Lo! thou hast tau?t ful many men, and thou hast strengthid hondis maad feynt.
- (Chaucer)
Statistics
* English words suffixed with -thvim
English
Noun
(en noun)- But the youth of today were a pasty lot, with none of the get-up-and-go, none of the vigor and vim that he remembered from the days when he was young…
