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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The state or condition of being fit; suitability or appropriateness.
  2. n. Good health or physical condition, especially as the result of exercise and proper nutrition.
  3. n. Biology The extent to which an organism is adapted to or able to produce offspring in a particular environment.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The state or quality of being fit or suitable; suitableness; adaptedness or adaptability of one thing to another; hence, congruity; befittingness; meetness: as, the fitness of things; the fitness of a thing for the purpose intended.
  2. n. The state of being fitted or qualified; requisite capacity; qualification: as, he lacks fitness for the place.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate
  2. n. the cultivation of an attractive and healthy physique
  3. n. the ability to perform a function

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The state or quality of being fit

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the quality of being qualified
  2. n. the quality of being suitable
  3. n. good physical condition; being in shape or in condition
  4. n. fitness to traverse the seas

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  • brtom "Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself." Whitman, Song of Myself, 3 Jan 3, 2008

‘fitness’ has been looked up 1577 times, loved by 1 person, added to 9 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 10.