activity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
semantics
Etymology: 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
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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.
Base: active
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: activities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being active; activeness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Pit row was abuzz with activity.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:activity.
gloss: Something done as an action or a movement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The activity for the morning was a walk to the store.
gloss: Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: An increasing number of sports activities are on offer at the university.
Quilting can be an enjoyable activity.
Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
gloss: The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time and have no natural end point.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […]distinctions among states of affairs are reflected to a striking degree in distinctions among Aktionsart types. That is, situations are expressed by state verbs or predicates, events by achievement verbs or predicates, and actions by activity verbs or predicates.
gloss: The number of radioactive decays per unit time. Unit for it: becquerel or curie
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The property of substances to react with other substances
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: activity
doings
endeavor
enterprise
pursuance
pursuit
undertaking
venture
Antonyms: rest
passivity
Related words: active
doer
occurrence
Derived words: 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
photoactivity
piezoactivity
preactivity
pulseless electrical activity
radioactivity
Raman optical activity
role activity diagram
self-activity
seroactivity
snacktivity
specific activity
structure-activity relationship
subactivity
superactivity
surrogate activity
thermoactivity
ultrahazardous activity
underactivity
vacuum activity
vasoactivity
zone of polarizing activity
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