activity

Other forms of activity

plural

activities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about activity

What does activity mean?

activity means "any specific behavior". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in activity?

activity has 4 syllables: ac-tiv-i-ty. The stress falls on "tiv". In IPA it is /ækˈtɪvəti/.

What is another word for activity?

Close synonyms include action, activeness, bodily process, body process, bodily function. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of activity?

The recorded antonyms are inactivity, inactivity.

Is activity a common word?

activity is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with activity?

11 words rhyme with activity. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.