vital impulse

Synonyms

instinct libido

Examples

a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase. Bertrand Russell

The true dualism I take to be the contrast between two wills, one of which is felt as vital impulse (élan vital) and the other as vital control (frein vital). Irving Babbitt

Words in the phrase

vital impulse

Close letter words and terms

vital fruit vital function vital importance vital info vital information vital key