fitness

From fit +‎ -ness, 16th century, physical sense from 1935.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪtnəs/

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• Rhymes: -ɪtnəs

fitness (usually uncountable, plural fitnesses)

1. The condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate.
   • 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 5:

     Having introduced my two characters separately, let me present them together. Why not? He, young, wealthy, honorable; she also young, also intelligent — why not bring them together? There is an eternal fitness in all things, and nothing more so than in the case of man and woman.

2. The cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique.
   • 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Carroll has been edging slowly towards full fitness after his expensive arrival from Newcastle United and his partnership with £23m Luis Suarez showed rich promise as Liverpool controlled affairs from start to finish.

3. (evolutionary theory) An organism's or species' degree of success in finding a mate and producing offspring.
4. (UK, slang) The condition of being attractive, fanciable or beautiful.

• (cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique): beauty, health
• (condition of being suitable): strength, suitability, competence, capability

• unfitness
• (antonym(s) of “cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique”): flab, sloth
• (antonym(s) of “ability to perform”): weakness

• infests, stefins

Unadapted borrowing from English fitness.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfitnesː/, [ˈfit̪n̪e̞s̠ː]
• Rhymes: -itnesː
• Syllabification^(key): fit‧ness

fitness

1. fitness (a type of fitness sport)

• “fitness”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Borrowed from English fitness.

• IPA^(key): /fit.nɛs/

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fitness m (uncountable)

1. (physical) fitness

• “fitness”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from fitness.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfit.nɛs/

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• Rhymes: -itnɛs
• Syllabification: fit‧ness

fitness m inan

1. (uncountable, exercise) aerobics or similar physical exercises done under the supervision of an instructor at a special club
2. (countable, exercise) special club where such exercises are done

• fitness in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fitness in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• fitness in PWN's encyclopedia

Unadapted borrowing from English fitness.

fitness m (uncountable)

1. fitness (cultivation of an attractive and healthy physique)
2. (artificial intelligence) fitness (degree of appropriateness of an answer in a genetic algorithm)

fitness (invariable)

1. (Brazil, informal) athletic (physically active)

Unadapted borrowing from English fitness.

fitness n (uncountable)

1. fitness

fitness m (uncountable)

1. fitness (cultivation of an attractive and healthy physique)