| NOUN | act | activity | any specific behavior |
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| state | activity, action, activeness | the state of being active | |
| process | activity, bodily process, body process, bodily function | an organic process that takes place in the body | |
| state | activity | (chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction | |
| process | activity, natural process, natural action, action | a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings) | |
| attribute | activity, activeness | the trait of being active |
| Sounds | aektih'vahtiy; aektih'vihtiy | |
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| Rhymes | ability ... zloty: 638 rhymes with tiy... | |
| Meaning | Any specific behavior. | |
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| Example | "they avoided all recreational activity" | |
| Narrower | acting, playing, playacting, performing | The performance of a part or role in a drama |
| aid, assist, assistance, help | The activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose | |
| attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try | earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish / accomplish something | |
| behavior, behaviour, conduct, doings | manner of acting or controlling yourself | |
| behavior, behaviour | (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation | |
| burst, fit | A sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason) | |
| buzz | A confusion of activity and gossip | |
| calibration, standardization, standardisation | The act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument | |
| ceremony | The proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion | |
| ceremony | Any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way | |
| concealment, concealing, hiding | The activity of keeping something secret | |
| continuance, continuation | The act of continuing an activity without interruption | |
| control | The activity of managing or exerting control over something | |
| creation, creative activity | The human act of creating | |
| cup of tea, bag, dish | An activity that you like or at which you are superior | |
| demand | The act of demanding | |
| dismantling, dismantlement, disassembly | The act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | |
| diversion, recreation | An activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates / stimulates | |
| domesticity | domestic / domestic activities or life | |
| education, instruction, teaching, pedagogy, didactics, educational activity | The activities of educating / educating or instructing | |
| energizing, activating, activation | The activity of causing to have energy and be active | |
| enjoyment, delectation | Act of receiving pleasure from something | |
| follow-up, followup | An activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done | |
| fun | violent and excited activity | |
| game | A contest with rules to determine a winner | |
| grouping | The activity of putting things together in groups | |
| lamentation, mourning | The passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief | |
| last | A person's dying act | |
| laughter | The activity of laughing | |
| leadership, leading | The activity of leading | |
| liveliness, animation | general activity and motion | |
| market, marketplace, market place | The world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold | |
| measurement, measuring, measure, mensuration | The act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | |
| music | musical activity (singing / singing / singing or whistling etc.) | |
| mystification, obfuscation | The activity of obscuring / obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered | |
| negotiation | The activity or business of negotiating an agreement | |
| occupation, business, job, line of work, line | The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money | |
| occupation | Any activity that occupies a person's attention | |
| operation, military operation | Activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign) | |
| operation | A planned activity involving many people performing various actions | |
| operation | The activity of operating / operating something (a machine or business etc.) | |
| organization, organisation | The activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically | |
| perturbation, disturbance | Activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption | |
| placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement | The act of putting something in a certain place | |
| pleasure | An activity that affords enjoyment | |
| politics | The activities and affairs involved in managing a state or a government | |
| practice, pattern | A customary way / way of operation or behavior | |
| precession, precedence, precedency | The act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony) | |
| preparation, readying | The activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose | |
| procedure, process | A particular course of action intended to achieve a result | |
| protection | The activity of protecting someone or something | |
| provision, supply, supplying | The activity of supplying or providing something | |
| puncture | The act of puncturing or perforating | |
| release, outlet, vent | Activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion | |
| representation | An activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent | |
| role | normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting | |
| search, hunt, hunting | The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone | |
| sensory activity | Activity intended to achieve a particular sensory result | |
| service | (law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him | |
| solo | Any activity that is performed alone without assistance | |
| space walk | Any kind of physical activity outside a spacecraft by one of the crew | |
| support, supporting | The act of bearing the weight of or strengthening | |
| support | The activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities | |
| timekeeping | The act or process of determining the time | |
| training, preparation, grooming | Activity leading to skilled behavior | |
| turn, play | (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession / succession | |
| update | The act of bringing someone or something up to date | |
| use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise | The act of using | |
| variation, variance | An activity that varies from a norm or standard | |
| verbalization, verbalisation | The activity of expressing something in words | |
| waste, wastefulness, dissipation | useless or profitless activity | |
| work | Activity directed toward making or doing something | |
| works, deeds | performance of moral or religious acts | |
| worship | The activity of worshipping | |
| writing, committal to writing | The activity of putting something in written form | |
| wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus | Activity that transgresses moral or civil law | |
| Broader | act, deed, human action, human activity | Something that people do or cause to happen |
| Opposite | inactivity | Inactive |
| Spanish | actividad | |
| Catalan | activitat | |
| Adjectives | active | in operation |
| active | taking part in an activity | |
| Meaning | The state of being active. | |
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| Example | "his sphere of activity" | |
| Synonyms | action, activeness | |
| Attributes | active | (of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt |
| Narrower | agency | The state of being in action or exerting power |
| behavior, behaviour | The action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances | |
| busyness, hum | The state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity | |
| eruption, eructation, extravasation | (of volcanos) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed) | |
| operation | The state of being in effect or being operative | |
| overdrive | The state of high or excessive activity or productivity or concentration | |
| play | A state in which action is feasible | |
| swing | A state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity | |
| Broader | state | The way something is with respect to its main attributes |
| Opposite | inaction, inactivity, inactiveness | The state of being inactive |
| Spanish | acción, actividad | |
| Catalan | acció, activitat | |
| Adjectives | active | engaged in full-time work |
| active | engaged in or ready for military or naval operations | |
| Meaning | (chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction. | |
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| Example | "catalytic activity" | |
| Category | chemistry, chemical science | The science of matter |
| Broader | capability, capacity | The susceptibility of something to a particular treatment |
| Spanish | actividad, fugacidad relativa | |
| Catalan | activitat, fugacitat relativa | |
| Adjectives | active | exerting influence or producing a change or effect |
| Meaning | A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings). | |
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| Example | "volcanic activity" | |
| Synonyms | natural process, natural action, action | |
| Narrower | absorption | (physics) the process in which incident radiated energy is retained without reflection or transmission on passing through a medium |
| acidification | The process of becoming acid or being converted into an acid | |
| adiabatic process | (thermodynamics) any process that occurs without gain or loss of heat | |
| aeration | The process of exposing to air (so as to purify) | |
| antiredeposition | The process of preventing redeposition | |
| capture | Any process in which an atomic or nuclear system acquires an additional particle | |
| capture | A process whereby a star or planet holds an object in its gravitational field | |
| centrifugation | The process of separating substances of different densities by the use of a centrifuge | |
| chemical process, chemical change, chemical action | (chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved | |
| chromatography | A process used for separating mixtures by virtue of differences in absorbency | |
| concretion | The formation of stonelike objects within a body organ (e.g., the kidneys) | |
| condensation | The process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state | |
| convection | (meteorology) the vertical movement of heat / heat or other properties by massive motion within the atmosphere | |
| curdling, clotting, coagulation | The process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid / liquid | |
| decay | The process of gradually becoming inferior | |
| demagnetization, demagnetisation | The process of removing magnetization | |
| desorption | changing from an adsorbed state on a surface to a gaseous or liquid state | |
| diffusion | (physics) the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration | |
| dissolution, disintegration | separation into component parts | |
| distillation, distillment | The process of purifying a liquid / liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors | |
| drift | The gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane) | |
| effervescence | The process of bubbling as gas escapes | |
| electrophoresis, cataphoresis, dielectrolysis, ionophoresis | The motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field | |
| establishment, ecesis | (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat | |
| extinction | The reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation | |
| extraction | The process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means | |
| feedback | The process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output | |
| filtration | The process whereby fluids pass through a filter or a filtering medium | |
| flocculation | The process of flocculating | |
| flow | Any uninterrupted stream or discharge | |
| formation | natural process that causes something to form | |
| fossilization, fossilisation | The process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age | |
| geological process, geologic process | (geology) a natural process whereby geological features are modified | |
| hardening, solidifying, solidification, set, curing | The process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | |
| inactivation | The process of rendering inactive | |
| ion exchange | A process in which ions are exchanged between a solution and an insoluble (usually resinous) solid | |
| ionization, ionisation | The process of ionizing / ionizing | |
| leach, leaching | The process of leaching / leaching / leaching | |
| magnetization, magnetisation, magnetic induction | The process that makes a substance magnetic (temporarily or permanently) | |
| materialization, materialisation | The process of coming into being | |
| nuclear reaction | (physics) a process that alters the energy or structure or composition of atomic nuclei | |
| opacification | The process of becoming cloudy or opaque | |
| oscillation | The process of oscillating between states | |
| oxygenation | The process of providing or combining or treating with oxygen | |
| pair production, pair creation, pair formation | The transformation of a gamma-ray photon into an electron and a positron when the photon passes close to an atomic nucleus | |
| phase change, phase transition, state change, physical change | A change from one state (solid or liquid / liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition | |
| precession of the equinoxes | A slow westward shift of the equinoxes along the plane of the ecliptic caused by precession of the Earth's axis of rotation | |
| radiation | The spread of a group of organisms into new habitats | |
| release | A process that liberates or discharges something | |
| saltation | (geology) the leaping movement of sand or soil particles as they are transported in a fluid medium over an uneven surface | |
| scattering | The physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions | |
| sericulture | Raising silkworms / silkworms in order to obtain raw silk | |
| sink | (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system | |
| soak, soakage, soaking | The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed / immersed in water (or other liquid / liquid) | |
| softening | The process of becoming softer | |
| sorption | The process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption) | |
| source | (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system | |
| stiffening, rigidifying, rigidification | The process of becoming stiff or rigid | |
| stimulation | (physiology) the effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.) | |
| succession, ecological succession | (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established | |
| survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection | A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment | |
| synergy, synergism | The working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects | |
| temperature change | A process whereby the degree of hotness of a body / body (or medium) changes | |
| transduction | The process whereby a transducer accepts energy in one form and gives back related energy in a different form | |
| transpiration | The passage of gases through fine tubes because of differences in pressure or temperature | |
| vitrification | The process of becoming vitreous | |
| Broader | process, physical process | A sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states |
| Spanish | acción, acción natural, proceso natural | |
| Catalan | procés natural | |
| Adjectives | active | (of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt |
| active | (of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions | |
| Meaning | The trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically. | |
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| Example | "the level of activity declines with age" | |
| Synonym | activeness | |
| Attributes | active | Characterized by energetic / energetic activity |
| active | disposed to take action or effectuate change | |
| inactive | not active physically or mentally | |
| Narrower | animation, spiritedness, invigoration, brio, vivification | Quality of being active or spirited / spirited / spirited or alive and vigorous / vigorous |
| dynamism, pizzazz, pizzaz, oomph, zing | The activeness of an energetic / energetic personality | |
| Broader | trait | A distinguishing feature of your personal nature |
| Opposite | inactiveness, inactivity, inertia | A disposition to remain inactive or inert |
| Spanish | actividad | |
| Catalan | activitat | |
| Adjectives | active | characterized by energetic / energetic activity |
| active | disposed to take action or effectuate change | |
| active | full of activity or engaged in continuous activity | |
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