• Vim

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /vɪm/
    • Rhymes: -ɪm

    Origin

    1843, possibly from the Latin vim, accusative of vis ("power, energy") (from which English vis); perhaps a modern imitative of the Latin.

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    Noun

    vim

    (plural vims)
    1. Ready vitality and vigor.
      • 1999, Neil Gaiman, Stardust, p. 58 (2001 Perennial paperback edition)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…

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