Zest vs. Vitality: What's the Difference?
Zest and Vitality Definitions
Zest
Flavor or piquancy
A spice that lends zest to the sauce.
Vitality
The capacity to live, grow, or develop
Plants that lost their vitality when badly pruned.
Zest
Interest or excitement
"A spiral staircase always adds zest to a setting" (P. J. O'Rourke).
Vitality
The characteristic, principle, or force that distinguishes living things from nonliving things.
Zest
The outermost part of the rind of an orange, lemon, or other citrus fruit, used as flavoring
Added a pinch of grated zest.
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Vitality
Physical or intellectual vigor; energy or liveliness.
Zest
Spirited enjoyment; gusto
"At 53 he retains all the heady zest of adolescence" (Kenneth Tynan).
Vitality
The capacity to endure
The vitality of an old tradition.
Zest
To remove small pieces from (a rind from a citrus fruit) for use as a flavoring in cooking
Zested the lemon.
Vitality
The capacity to live and develop.
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Zest
The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish.
The orange zest gives the strong flavor in this dish.
Vitality
Energy or vigour.
Zest
General vibrance of flavour.
I add zest to the meat by rubbing it with a spice mixture before grilling.
Vitality
That which distinguishes living from nonliving things; life, animateness.
Zest
(by extension) Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; relish; gusto.
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Vitality
The quality or state of being vital; the principle of life; vital force; animation; as, the vitality of eggs or vegetable seeds; the vitality of an enterprise.
Zest
(rare) The woody, thick skin enclosing the kernel of a walnut.
Vitality
An energetic style
Zest
(cooking) To scrape the zest from a fruit.
Vitality
A healthy capacity for vigorous activity;
Jogging works off my excess energy
He seemed full of vim and vigor
Zest
To make more zesty.
Vitality
(biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms
Zest
A piece of orange or lemon peel, or the aromatic oil which may be squeezed from such peel, used to give flavor to liquor, etc.
Vitality
The property of being able to survive and grow;
The vitality of a seed
Zest
Hence, something that gives or enhances a pleasant taste, or the taste itself; an appetizer; also, keen enjoyment; relish; gusto.
Almighty Vanity! to thee they oweTheir zest of pleasure, and their balm of woe.
Liberality of disposition and conduct gives the highest zest and relish to social intercourse.
Zest
The woody, thick skin inclosing the kernel of a walnut.
Zest
To cut into thin slips, as the peel of an orange, lemon, etc.; to squeeze, as peel, over the surface of anything.
Zest
To give a relish or flavor to; to heighten the taste or relish of; as, to zest wine.
Zest
Vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment
Zest
A tart spiciness
Zest
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