being, beingness, existence - the state or fact of existing; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries"

ghetto - any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping; "the relative security of the gay ghetto"; "no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool"

being, beingness, existence - the state or fact of existing; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries"

experience - the content of direct observation or participation in an event; "he had a religious experience"; "he recalled the experience vividly"

being, beingness, existence - the state or fact of existing; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries"

eternal life, life eternal - life without beginning or end

skin - a person's skin regarded as their life; "he tried to save his skin"

survival, endurance - a state of surviving; remaining alive

period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"

life expectancy - an expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical probabilities

birth - the time when something begins (especially life); "they divorced after the birth of the child"; "his election signaled the birth of a new age"

demise, dying, death - the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes"

afterlife, hereafter - life after death

time of life - a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state

eld, age - a time in life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises; "she was now of school age"; "tall for his eld"

period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"

past - a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret); "reporters dug into the candidate's past"

brio, invigoration, spiritedness, vivification, animation - quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous

airiness, delicacy - lightness in movement or manner

alacrity, briskness - liveliness and eagerness; "he accepted with alacrity"

vim, vigor, vigour, energy - an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"

elan - enthusiastic and assured vigor and liveliness; "a performance of great elan and sophistication"

esprit - liveliness of mind or spirit

breeziness, jauntiness - a breezy liveliness; "a delightful breeziness of manner"

irrepressibility, buoyancy - irrepressible liveliness and good spirit; "I admired his bouyancy and persistent good humor"

high-spiritedness - exuberant liveliness

ebullience, enthusiasm, exuberance - overflowing with enthusiasm

pep, peppiness, ginger - liveliness and energy; "this tonic is guaranteed to give you more pep"

chronicle, history, account, story - a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"

autobiography - a biography of yourself

hagiography - a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint)

profile - biographical sketch

Parallel Lives - a collection of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch; used by Shakespeare in writing some of his plays

period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"

days, years - the time during which someone's life continues; "the monarch's last days"; "in his final years"

human, individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"

animate thing, living thing - a living (or once living) entity

wildlife - all living things (except people) that are undomesticated; "chemicals could kill all the wildlife"

motivation, motive, need - the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior; "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives"

organic phenomenon - (biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals

biology - characteristic life processes and phenomena of living organisms; "the biology of viruses"

aerobiosis - life sustained in the presence of air or oxygen

prison term, sentence, time - the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned; "he served a prison term of 15 months"; "his sentence was 5 to 10 years"; "he is doing time in the county jail"