fitness

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio (US)

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• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪtnəs/
• Rhymes: -ɪtnəs

Noun

fitness (usually uncountable, plural fitnesses)

1. The condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate.
2. The cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique.
   • 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     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. (Britain, slang) The condition of being attractive, fanciable or beautiful.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

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

Derived terms

• warrant of fitness

Translations

condition of being fit

• French: condition physique
• German: Fitness (de) f

cultivation of an attractive and healthy physique

• Arabic: صِحَّة‎‎ f (ṣiḥḥa) (health)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 健康 (zh) (jiànkāng) (health)

• Danish: egnethed c
• Finnish: kuntoilu (fi)
• French: fitness (fr) m
• German: Fitness (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐌸𐍂𐍉𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (usþrōþeins)
• Hebrew: כשר‎‎ (he) m, כשר גופני‎‎

• Irish: oiriúint f, oiriúnacht f
• Japanese: 健康 (ja) (けんこう, kenkō) (health), フィットネス (fitonesu)
• Latvian: vingrums m, fitness m
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: egnethet, (dialectal) eignahet f, m

• Portuguese: fitness (pt) m
• Russian: хоро́шая физи́ческая фо́рма f (xoróšaja fizíčeskaja fórma), фи́тнес (ru) m (fítnɛs), здоро́вье (ru) n (zdoróvʹje) (health)
• Spanish: aptitud (es) f, (ARG) ámbito (es) m

ability to perform

• Bulgarian: годност (bg) f (godnost), способност (bg) f (sposobnost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 适合 (zh) (shìhé)

• Czech: vhodnost f
• Finnish: kunto (fi)

• German: Tauglichkeit (de) f, Zweckmäßigkeit f
• Japanese: 適当 (ja) (てきとう, tekitō)
• Russian: приго́дность (ru) f (prigódnostʹ), го́дность (ru) f (gódnostʹ)
• Spanish: capacidad (es) f, nivel físico m
• Ukrainian: придатність f (prydátnistʹ)

Anagrams

• infests, stefins

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English fitness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fit.nɛs/

• Audio (Belgium)

  (file)

Noun

fitness m (uncountable)

1. (physical) fitness

Further reading

• “fitness” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fitness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʲit.nɛs/

Noun

fitness m inan

1. aerobics or similar physical exercises

Declension

declension of fitness

	singular
nominative	fitness
genitive	fitnessu
dative	fitnessowi
accusative	fitness
instrumental	fitnessem
locative	fitnessie
vocative	fitnessie

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English fitness.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfit͡ʃ.nes/

Noun

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)

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Spanish

Noun

fitness m (uncountable)

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