activity
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus ▲ Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl. Latin āctīvus Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin āctīvitāsder. Middle French activitébor. English activity From Middle French activité, from Latin activitas. Equivalent to active + -ity.
Definitions
The state or quality of being active
The state or quality of being active; activeness.
- Pit row was abuzz with activity.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:activity.
Something done as an action or a movement.
- The activity for the morning was a walk to the store.
Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an…
Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
- An increasing number of sports activities are on offer at the university.
- Quilting can be an enjoyable activity.
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The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time and have no…
The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time and have no natural end point.
The number of radioactive decays per unit time. Unit for it
The number of radioactive decays per unit time. Unit for it: becquerel or curie
The property of substances to react with other substances
The neighborhood
- synonymactivity
- synonymdoings
- synonymendeavor
- synonymenterprise
- synonympursuance
- synonympursuit
- synonymundertaking
- synonymventure
- antonymrest
- antonympassivity
- neighboractive
- neighbordoer
- neighboroccurrence
- neighborbusiness
- neighborcommunication
- neighbordrinking
- neighboreating
- neighborexercise
- neighborhobby
- neighboroccupation
- neighborplay
- neighborsexual activity
Derived
activities of daily living, activity book, activity group psychotherapy, activity stream, activity theory, activity trap, autoactivity, beehive of activity, bioactivity, catalytic activity, coactivity, counteractivity, crifanac, cyberactivity, cytoactivity, dark-activity, displacement activity, electroactivity, extravehicular activity, fanac, funtivity, hectivity, hive of activity, hyperactivity, hypoactivity, ichnoactivity, immunoactivity, inactivity, interactivity, mechanoactivity, microactivity, minac, multiactivity, myoactivity, neuroactivity, nonactivity, normoactivity, optical activity, overactivity, pharmacoactivity · +21 more
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for activity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA