Definitions, Meanings, Synonyms, Examples and Famous Quotes of activity in English

activity

• 1.

  The condition in which things are happening or being done.

  "There has been a sustained level of activity in the economy"

• 2.

  A thing that a person or group does or has done.

  "The firm's marketing activities"

  Synonyms (27)

  Pursuit Occupation Venture Undertaking Enterprise Project Scheme Business Job Affair Task Campaign Interest Hobby Pastime Recreation Diversion Entertainment Act Action Deed Doing Exploit Maneuver Thing Lark Caper
• 3.

  A thermodynamic quantity representing the effective concentration of a particular component in a solution or other system, equal to its concentration multiplied by an activity coefficient.

• 4.

  The situation in which a lot of things are happening or people are moving around

  "There was a lot of activity in preparation for the Queen's visit."

• 5.

  An organic process that takes place in the body

  "Respiratory activity"

  Synonyms (3)

  Bodily function Bodily process Body process

  Type of (2)

  Organic process Biological process

  Has types (53)

  Sudation Sexual activity Watering Sexual practice Expectoration Expelling External respiration Discharge Sleeping Ventilation Festering Respiration Consumption Suppuration Breath Vermiculation Sweating Control Maturation Ablactation Response Anastalsis Tanning Psilosis Tearing Tears Breathing Pinocytosis Healing Transpiration Diaphoresis Hidrosis Reaction Lachrymation Lactation Uptake Sex Sex activity Lacrimation Phagocytosis Perspiration Hypostasis Weeping Opsonisation Opsonization Ingestion Insemination Emission Intake Overactivity Peristalsis Crying Placentation

  Derivation (1)

  Active
• 6.

  The state of being active

  "His sphere of activity"

  Synonyms (2)

  Action Activeness

  Antonyms (1)

  Inactivity

  Type of (1)

  State

  Has types (12)

  Busyness Extravasation Eruption Eructation Behavior Behaviour Hum Swing Play Overdrive Operation Agency

  Derivation (1)

  Active
• 7.

  The trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically

  "The level of activity declines with age"

  Synonyms (1)

  Activeness

  Type of (1)

  Trait

  Has types (10)

  Brio Vivification Dynamism Animation Invigoration Zing Oomph Pizzaz Pizzazz Spiritedness

  Derivation (1)

  Active
• 8.

  A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)

  "Volcanic activity"

  Synonyms (3)

  Action Natural action Natural process

  Type of (2)

  Process Physical process

  Has types (101)

  Synergism Absorption Acidification Adiabatic process Aeration Antiredeposition Capture Cataphoresis Centrifugation Chemical action Chemical change Chemical process Chromatography Clotting Coagulation Concretion Condensation Convection Curdling Curing Decay Demagnetisation Demagnetization Desorption Dielectrolysis Diffusion Disintegration Dissolution Distillation Distillment Drift Ecesis Ecological succession Effervescence Electrophoresis Establishment Extinction Extraction Feedback Filtration Flocculation Flow Formation Fossilisation Fossilization Geologic process Geological process Hardening Inactivation Ion exchange Ionisation Ionization Ionophoresis Leach Leaching Magnetic induction Magnetisation Magnetization Materialisation Materialization Natural selection Nuclear reaction Opacification Oscillation Oxygenation Pair creation Pair formation Pair production Phase change Phase transition Physical change Precession of the equinoxes Radiation Release Rigidification Rigidifying Saltation Scattering Selection Sericulture Set Sink Soak Soakage Soaking Softening Solidification Solidifying Sorption Source State change Stiffening Stimulation Succession Survival Survival of the fittest Synergy Temperature change Transduction Transpiration Vitrification

  Derivation (1)

  Active
• 9.

  Any specific behavior

  "They avoided all recreational activity"

  Antonyms (1)

  Inactivity

  Type of (4)

  Human action Human activity Deed Act

  Has types (153)

  Supporting Business Try Work Teaching Buzz Timekeeping Training Education Educational activity Calibration Effort Emplacement Employment Endeavor Endeavour Energizing Enjoyment Verbalization Verbalisation Exercise Activation Actus reus Acting Fit Ceremony Follow-up Followup Wrongful conduct Aid Fun Game Wastefulness Waste Grooming Grouping Wrongdoing Help Hiding Vent Hunt Hunting Animation Instruction Variation Activating Committal to writing Concealing Concealment Job Lamentation Last Laughter Assist Assistance Leadership Leading Line Line of work Liveliness Locating Location Conduct Continuance Market Market place Marketplace Continuation Measure Measurement Measuring Mensuration Military operation Misconduct Mourning Music Mystification Control Negotiation Perturbation Obfuscation Occupation Variance Creation Utilization Operation Organisation Organization Creative activity Outlet Utilisation Cup of tea Bag Behavior Pattern Pedagogy Performing Attempt Writing Deeds Use Usage Placement Play Playacting Playing Pleasure Politics Position Positioning Practice Precedence Precedency Precession Delectation Preparation Procedure Process Protection Provision Puncture Readying Recreation Worship Release Representation Demand Behaviour Role Didactics Search Sensory activity Service Disassembly Dish Dismantlement Dismantling Dissipation Solo Works Burst Space walk Update Standardisation Standardization Turn Disturbance Diversion Doings Domesticity Supply Supplying Support

  Derivation (1)

  Active
• 10.

  (chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction

  "Catalytic activity"

  Type of (2)

  Capacity Capability

  Categories (2)

  Chemical science Chemistry

  Derivation (1)

  Active

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Quotes and Sayings about "activity"

1.

"The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for so much work."

--- Alexander MacLaren

2.

"The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make."

--- Aristotle

3.

"Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen."

--- Shunryu Suzuki

4.

"The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality."

--- Maria Montessori

5.

"Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else."

--- Letty Cottin Pogrebin