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activity > 6 senses
NOUN1activityAny specific behavior
2activity, action, activenessThe state of being active
3activity, bodily process, body process, bodily functionAn organic process that takes place in the body
4activity(chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction
5activity, natural process, natural action, actionA process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
6activity, activenessThe trait of being active
activity > pronunciation
Soundsaektih'vahtiy; aektih'vihtiy
Rhymesability, abnormality, absentee, and 622 more rhymes in tiy...
activity > noun 1, act
MeaningAny specific behavior.
Examples"they avoided all recreational activity"
Contraryinactivity
Broaderact, human action, human activity
Narrowervariation, 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, didactics, 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
Adjectivesactive; active; active; active
activity > noun 2, state
MeaningThe state of being active.
Examples"his sphere of activity"
Synonymsaction, activeness
Contraryinaction, inactivity, inactiveness
Broaderstate
Narroweragency; busyness, hum; behavior, behaviour; eruption, eructation, extravasation; operation; overdrive; play; swing
Attributesactive
Adjectivesactive; active; active
activity > noun 3, process
MeaningAn organic process that takes place in the body.
Examples"respiratory activity"
Synonymsbodily process, body process, bodily function
Broaderorganic process, biological process
Narrowercontrol; 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
Adjectivesactive
activity > noun 4, state
Meaning(chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction.
Examples"catalytic activity"
Categorychemistry, chemical science
Broadercapability, capacity
Adjectivesactive
activity > noun 5, process
MeaningA process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
Examples"volcanic activity"
Synonymsnatural process, natural action, action
Broaderprocess, physical process
Narrowerradiation; 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; inactivation; 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
Adjectivesactive; active
activity > noun 6, attribute
MeaningThe trait of being active. Moving or acting rapidly and energetically.
Examples"the level of activity declines with age"
Synonymsactiveness
Contraryinactiveness, inactivity, inertia
Broadertrait
Narroweranimation, spiritedness, invigoration, brio, vivification; dynamism, pizzazz, pizzaz, oomph, zing
Attributesactive; inactive; active
Adjectivesactive; active; active

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