Usually means: Inherent drive to persist, survive.
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  1. conatus: Merriam-Webster
  2. conatus: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Conatus, conatus: Wordnik
  4. conatus: Wiktionary
  5. conatus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. conatus: Infoplease Dictionary
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  8. Conatus (album), Conatus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Conatus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. conatus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Conatus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. conatus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. conatus: FreeDictionary.org
  14. conatus: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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Definitions from Wiktionary (conatus)

▸ noun:  An effort, an endeavour, a striving.
▸ noun:  A force or impulse; a nisus.

Similar:
endeavorment, effort, endeavoring, endeavourment, attempt, conation, essaying, enterprising, undertakement, undertaking, more...

Opposite:
inertia, passivity, lethargy

Types:
self-preservation, self-defense, self-replication, self-repair, self-improvement, more...

Adjectives:
centrifugal, own, perpetual, human, blind, spinozistic, individual, continual, constant, paracentric, natural

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Similar:
endeavorment, effort, endeavoring, endeavourment, attempt, conation, essaying, enterprising, undertakement, undertaking, more...

Opposite:
inertia, passivity, lethargy

Types:
self-preservation, self-defense, self-replication, self-repair, self-improvement, more...

Adjectives:
centrifugal, own, perpetual, human, blind, spinozistic, individual, continual, constant, paracentric, natural



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