Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state or condition of being fit; suitability or appropriateness.
- n. Good health or physical condition, especially as the result of exercise and proper nutrition.
- n. Biology The extent to which an organism is adapted to or able to produce offspring in a particular environment.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- n. The state of being fitted or qualified; requisite capacity; qualification: as, he lacks fitness for the place.
Wiktionary
- n. The condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate.
- n. The cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique.
- n. UK, slang The condition of being attractive, fanciable or beautiful.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state or quality of being fit
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of being qualified
- n. the quality of being suitable
- n. good physical condition; being in shape or in condition
- n. fitness to traverse the seas
Etymologies
- fit + -ness. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Protein fitness is defined by the properties of organic chemicals, which may indeed be (as you contend) the evidence of telic forethought, but that is entirely outside the scope of the subject weasel is addressing.”
“The doctrine of evolution uses the term fitness in a hard and stern sense.”
“There are a whole host of other errors in this i09 article, and I'll just pick this one: It does not use the term fitness correctly.”
“The biological concept of "fitness" is what engineers often call an "error function.”
“This trip was shrouded in secrecy – players included – before it took place and it has become a monumental source of embarrassment since it was revealed that Jimmy Anderson damaged a rib in a boxing bout during the trip and that his fitness is in doubt ahead of the first Test in Brisbane.”
The Guardian: Pre-Ashes boot camps: team-building fun or a waste of time?
“Ed Baig has trying out "brain fitness" software and Web-based offerings that aim to bolster cognitive skills through games and mental ...”
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“Playing brain fitness games CogniFit, InSight, Lumosity”
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“I've been trying out "brain fitness" software and Web-based offerings that aim to bolster cognitive skills through games and mental exercises: The CogniFit Personal Coach promises to "slow down cognitive decline.”
“Lumosity suggested a brain fitness program for me consisting of 40 sessions of five games each.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fitness’.
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EN - pseudo-English words
English words used by foreigners in a different sense than they would be used by native speakers + madeupical "English" words that sound English but are not recognized as such by native speakers of...
abseiling, advertising, agroboy, airco, air-condition, relooker, apart, autogrill, autostop, babykiller, baby-foot, babylift and 263 more...
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Double Letter words
Here is a list of Double Letter Words! Everyone is welcome to add some more words if needed!
bubbles, gallop, wheel, follow, grasshopper, bunny, rabbit, summer, groovy, puppy, fitness, greetings and 65 more...
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Unfortunately Necessary Words
Words we have to use all the time, but that doesn't mean they sound good. In fact, they kind of suck. See also this list.
milk, cheese, neck, teeth, moist, dry, skin, head, feet, mouth, frankly, hair and 97 more...
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Alles ganz verschieden
Listed various words that have come into my mind. Will edit them at some point - honestly.
dog-gold, shoulderlooker, mr. considering, the pigwoman, stevie is waiting, chingwybodganpwy, thelandscapeisstu..., couchsurfing, cappuccinodrinking, meat-eater, posher, mae rhaid i fi fynd and 581 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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whitmanian
from the poetry and prose of walt whitman
celebrate, assume, loafe, grass, summer, distillation, atmosphere, undisguised, naked, mad, breath, loveroot and 291 more...
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INTERP - VOCABULARY
The vocabulary of conference interpreting. I commend this list to those who want to know more about the profession and to those who wish to organize their knowledge about the profession. To aspirin...
retour language, A-language, B-language, C-language, relay language, take sy on relay, language booth, booth meeting, mic, mike, mission, freelance interpr... and 2086 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1707 more...
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Diversified Obsessions
calendars, running, music, men, friends, motherhood, art, food, solitude, connection, drama, humor and 117 more...
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genuinejessie's Words
cockatoo, goffins, glamour model, natural blonde, camera, website design, photographer, blogger, writing, journal, macro photography, glamour photography and 43 more...
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Show me whatcha workin' with!
Exercise.
jumping jack, burpee, workout, fitness, gym, circuit training, jogging, in shape, dumbbell, skipping rope, medicine ball, powerlifting and 41 more...
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voca22000_1105
voca22000_1105
bush, bough, twig, trunk, thron, oak, bud, pine, petal, mamal, claw, worm and 36 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for fitness.
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