activeness

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti

Proto-Italic *agō

Latin agō

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.

Latin -īvus

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Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl.

Latin āctīvusbor.

Old French actifbor.

Middle English actyf

English active

Proto-Germanic *-in-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

Proto-Germanic *-inōną

Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-

Proto-Germanic *-atjaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Germanic *-þuz

Proto-Germanic *-assuz

Proto-Germanic *-inassuz

Proto-West Germanic *-nassī

Old English -nes

Middle English -nesse

English -ness

English activeness

From active + -ness.

Noun

activeness (usually uncountable, plural activenesses)

1. The state or quality of being active.

   Synonym: activity

   • 2011, Toyohide Watanabe, Lakhmi C. Jain, Innovations in Intelligent Machines -2: Intelligent Paradigms and ..., Volume 2‎^[1]:

     Erickson et al. proposed a visualization method of representing the activenesses of discussions by the positions of circles that correspond to participants.

Translations

state or quality — see activity