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How to sign: a characteristic state or mode of living
"social life"; "city life"; "real life";
Categories: being, beingness, existence
Within this category: ghetto
How to sign: the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)
"the battery had a short life"; "he lived a long and happy life";
Similiar / Same: lifetime, lifespan
Categories: era, period, period of time, time, time period
Within this category: afterlife, life expectancy
How to sign: the experience of living; the course of human events and activities
"he could no longer cope with the complexities of life";
Similiar / Same: living
Categories: experience
How to sign: the condition of living or the state of being alive
"while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes";
Similiar / Same: around, animation, aliveness, living
Categories: being, beingness, existence
Within this category: eternal life, skin, survival
How to sign: animation and energy in action or expression
"it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it";
Similiar / Same: sprightliness, liveliness, spirit
Categories: animation, brio, invigoration, spiritedness, vivification
Within this category: airiness, alacrity, breeziness, elan, energy, esprit, exuberance, high-spiritedness, irrepressibility, pep
