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n. - Physical energy or intensity.

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Usage examples (29)
  • A government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man
  • "There is a passion, there is a vigor, there is a forcefulness, which is more thrilling," he says of an all-male Glee Club.
  • I mean she worked at a law firm for a # of years, its hard to shake that "forcefulness" off.
  • Then he suddenly wheeled on her, and for the first time some kind of forcefulness appeared in his manner.
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