Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being active; the faculty of acting; nimbleness; activity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
active .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being active
- noun the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically
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Examples
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That inter-activeness is fun and unpredictable and can be educational.
Good-bye Harriet : Jeffrey McDaniel : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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And as for my own 'activeness' I've spent most of to-day in my dressing gown drinking tea.
Priestly Castes and Political Exclusion Newmania 2007
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We discovered it was difficult to accurately measure the "activeness" of a volunteer counselor without establishing a paperwork nightmare.
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KIM SANG-HUN: I've always wanted to maintain an activeness in my career.
Trading His Gavel In For a Mouse Son Yong-Suk 2011
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The activeness of the terrorist underground isn't declining, he said.
Terror at Moscow Airport Richard Boudreaux 2011
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In light of a Washington Post report which “ominously tells us that the World Health Organization warns that we are on the verge of a global pandemic”, Guyanese blogger Imran Khan is heartened by the call of a local journalist for “his colleagues in the media to pay greater attention to the swine flu situation”, but still wonders about the government's pro-activeness:
Global Voices in English » Caribbean: Keeping Track of Swine Flu 2009
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There's plenty of parents who feel differently from her and her ilk, and who want children to wait until they're ready, but also don't hinge their children's (especially girl's) morality on their sexual activeness before marriage.
Adventures in conservative media (Laura Ingraham edition) - Feministing 2009
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For moderately active women, the average daily caloric allotment is anywhere from 1,800 to 2,200 depending on age and level of activeness.
Grace Nasri: 10 Of The Fattiest Fast Foods Grace Nasri 2011
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For moderately active women, the average daily caloric allotment is anywhere from 1,800 to 2,200 depending on age and level of activeness.
Grace Nasri: 10 Of The Fattiest Fast Foods Grace Nasri 2011
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Researchers determined that wall posts and the number of Facebook friends were the most significant predictors for determining a user's Facebook activeness, which in turn reflected their enthusiasm in the academic world surrounding them.
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