noun
1. the condition of living or the state of being alive
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while there's life there's hope
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life depends on many chemical and physical processes
• Hyponyms: ↑eternal life, ↑life eternal, ↑skin, ↑survival, ↑endurance
2. the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life
• Syn: ↑animateness, ↑liveness
• Ant: ↑inanimateness (for: ↑animateness)
• Hypernyms: ↑physiological property
• Attrubites: ↑animate, ↑inanimate, ↑nonliving, ↑non-living
Useful english dictionary. 2012.