human action

Questions about human action

What does human action mean?

human action means "something that people do or cause to happen".

What is another word for human action?

Close synonyms include act, deed, human activity. 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.

Is human action a common word?

human action is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.