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NOUN | 1 | activity | Any specific activity |
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2 | activity, action, activeness | The state of being active | |
3 | activity, bodily process, body process, bodily function | An organic process that takes place in the body | |
4 | activity | (chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction | |
5 | activity, natural process, natural action, action | A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings) | |
6 | activity, activeness | The trait of being active |
Sounds | aektih'vahtiy; aektih'vihtiy |
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Rhymes | ability, abnormality, absentee, and 620 more rhymes in tiy at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Any specific activity. |
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Examples | "they avoided all recreational activity" |
Narrower | variation, variance; space walk; domesticity; operation; operation; practice, pattern; diversion, recreation; cup of tea, bag, dish; follow-up, followup; game; turn, play; music; acting, playing, playacting, performing; liveliness, animation; burst, fit; work; works, deeds; service; occupation, business, job, line of work, line; occupation; writing, committal to writing; role; wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus; waste, wastefulness, dissipation; attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try; control; protection; sensory activity; education, instruction, teaching, pedagogy, educational activity; training, preparation, grooming; representation; creation, creative activity; dismantling, dismantlement, disassembly; line function, line duty; puncture; search, hunt, hunting; use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise; operation, military operation; measurement, measuring, measure, mensuration; calibration, standardization, standardisation; organization, organisation; grouping; support, supporting; continuance, continuation; procedure, process; ceremony; ceremony; worship; energizing, activating, activation; concealment, concealing, hiding; placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement; provision, supply, supplying; demand; pleasure; enjoyment, delectation; lamentation, mourning; laughter; market, marketplace; preparation, readying; aid, assist, assistance, help; support; behavior, behaviour, conduct, doings; behavior, behaviour; leadership, leading; precession, precedence, precedency; solo; buzz; fun; sin, hell; release, outlet, vent; last; mystification, obfuscation; negotiation; perturbation, disturbance; timekeeping |
Broader | act, human action, human activity |
Contrary | inactivity |
Meaning | The state of being active. |
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Examples | "his sphere of activity" |
Synonyms | action, activeness |
Attributes | active; active |
Narrower | agency; busyness, hum; behavior, behaviour; eruption, eructation, extravasation; operation; overdrive; play; swing |
Broader | state |
Contrary | inaction, inactivity, inactiveness |
Meaning | An organic process that takes place in the body. |
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Examples | "respiratory activity" |
Synonyms | bodily process, body process, bodily function |
Narrower | control; breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation; respiration; breath; consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake; sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity; insemination; sleeping; reaction, response; crying, weeping, tears; ablactation; anastalsis; discharge, emission, expelling; expectoration; festering, suppuration, maturation; healing; hypostasis; lacrimation, lachrymation, tearing, watering; lactation; opsonization, opsonisation; overactivity; peristalsis, vermiculation; perspiration, sweating, diaphoresis, sudation, hidrosis; phagocytosis; pinocytosis; placentation; psilosis; tanning; transpiration |
Broader | organic process, biological process |
Meaning | (chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction. |
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Examples | "catalytic activity" |
Category | chemistry, chemical science |
Broader | capability, capacity |
Meaning | A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings). |
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Examples | "volcanic activity" |
Synonyms | natural process, natural action, action |
Narrower | radiation; absorption; acidification; adiabatic process; aeration; antiredeposition; capture; capture; centrifugation; chemical process, chemical change, chemical action; chromatography; concretion; condensation; convection; curdling, clotting, coagulation; decay; demagnetization, demagnetisation; desorption; diffusion; dissolution, disintegration; distillation, distillment; drift; effervescence; electrophoresis, cataphoresis, dielectrolysis, ionophoresis; establishment, ecesis; extinction; extraction; feedback; filtration; flocculation; flow; formation; fossilization, fossilisation; geological process, geologic process; hardening, solidifying, solidification, set, curing; ignition; inactivation; induction; ion exchange; ionization, ionisation; leach, leaching; magnetization, magnetisation, magnetic induction; materialization, materialisation; nuclear reaction; opacification; oscillation; oxygenation; pair production, pair creation, pair formation; phase change, phase transition, state change, physical change; precession of the equinoxes; release; saltation; scattering; sericulture; sink; soak, soakage, soaking; softening; sorption; source; stiffening, rigidifying, rigidification; stimulation; succession, ecological succession; survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection; synergy, synergism; temperature change; transduction; transpiration; vitrification |
Broader | process |
Meaning | The trait of being active. Moving or acting rapidly and energetically. |
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Examples | "the level of activity declines with age" |
Synonyms | activeness |
Attributes | active; inactive; active |
Narrower | animation, spiritedness, invigoration, brio, vivification; dynamism, pizzazz, pizzaz, oomph, zing |
Broader | trait |
Contrary | inactiveness, inactivity, inertia |