living things collectively | a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential |
animation and energy in action or expression | the human embodiment of something |
the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities | a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s |
an account of the series of events making up a person's life | deep feeling or emotion |
a motive for living | the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life |
a living person | |
the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones | |
the condition of living or the state of being alive | |
a characteristic state or mode of living | |
the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living | |
the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death) | |
the period between birth and the present time | |
the period from the present until death | |
a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives | |