activity

• WordNet 3.6
  • n activity any specific behavior "they avoided all recreational activity"
  • n activity the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically "the level of activity declines with age"
  • n activity an organic process that takes place in the body "respiratory activity"
  • n activity a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings) "the action of natural forces","volcanic activity"
  • n activity the state of being active "his sphere of activity","he is out of action"
  • n activity (chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction "catalytic activity"
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• Interesting fact: In the past 60 years, the groundhog has only predicted the weather correctly 28% of the time. The rushing back and forth from burrows is believed to indicate sexual activity, not shadow seeking
• • n Activity The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities . "The activity of toil."
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• Interesting fact: Bozeman, Montana, has a law that bans all sexual activity between members of the opposite sex in the front yard of a home after sundownif they're nude. (Apparently, if you wear socks, you're safe from the law!)
• • n activity The state of action; doing.
  • n activity Activeness; the quality of acting promptly and energetically.
  • n activity An exercise of energy or force; an active movement or operation; a mode or course of action.
  • n activity In physical, a term introduced by Sir William Thomson as an equivalent of “rate of doing work,” or the rate per unit of time at which energy is given out by a working system.
  • n activity A physical or gymnastic exercise; an agile performance.
  • n activity In. psychology, a self-determination of mental process, experienced or inferred, especially characteristic of the conative consciousness. The term has been variously and loosely used in modern psychology. In those systems which are still dominated by philosophical influences it denotes a primary and irreducible experience of self-causation or free initiative. To the psychologist who looks upon mind as a system of organic functions activity is given with the direction of the course of consciousness, knowingly or unknowingly, upon a determinate end: a particular mental process is the first term of a definite series, the remaining members of which it evokes in their order, while the series reaches its natural conclusion when the end is attained. In this sense, however, mental activity becomes practically synonymous with mental function itself, since the limiting cases of anoëtic sentience and involuntary movement are still self-determined in just so far as consciousness is in volved in them. Lastly, there are psychologists who, investigating mind as a stream of mental processes, predicate of it neither activity nor passivity, but hold that the autithesis of active and passive has no more place within psychology than the antithesis of subjective and objective. However, they still employ the terms, in obedience to traditional usage, as descriptive names of mental states or mental complexes; they speak, for example, of ‘active’ attention, meaning attention that is equiv rally conditioned; and of a ‘feeling of activity’ which accompanies the state of active attention. Such a terminology, however harmless in intention, can only add to the existing confusion.
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• Greg Anderson

  

  “... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.”
• Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

  

  “True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.”
• Source Unknown

  

  “Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to get by.”
• Hannah Arendt

  

  “We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.”
• Ralph Waldo Emerson

  

  “Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.”
• Franklin D. Roosevelt

  

  “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”

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