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activity > 6 senses
NOUN1activityAny specific activity
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 620 more rhymes in tiy at the HyperDic website...
activity > noun 1, act
MeaningAny specific activity.
Examples"they avoided all recreational 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, 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
Broaderact, human action, human activity
Contraryinactivity
activity > noun 2, state
MeaningThe state of being active.
Examples"his sphere of activity"
Synonymsaction, activeness
Attributesactive; active
Narroweragency; busyness, hum; behavior, behaviour; eruption, eructation, extravasation; operation; overdrive; play; swing
Broaderstate
Contraryinaction, inactivity, inactiveness
activity > noun 3, process
MeaningAn organic process that takes place in the body.
Examples"respiratory activity"
Synonymsbodily process, body process, bodily function
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
Broaderorganic process, biological process
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
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
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; 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
Broaderprocess
activity > noun 6, attribute
MeaningThe trait of being active. Moving or acting rapidly and energetically.
Examples"the level of activity declines with age"
Synonymsactiveness
Attributesactive; inactive; active
Narroweranimation, spiritedness, invigoration, brio, vivification; dynamism, pizzazz, pizzaz, oomph, zing
Broadertrait
Contraryinactiveness, inactivity, inertia

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