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Definition of Fitness

1. Noun. The quality of being suitable. "They had to prove their fitness for the position"

2. Noun. Good physical condition; being in shape or in condition.

3. Noun. Fitness to traverse the seas.

4. Noun. The quality of being qualified.

Definition of Fitness

1. n. The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.

Definition of Fitness

1. Noun. The condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate. ¹

2. Noun. The cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique. ¹

3. Noun. (UK slang) The condition of being attractive, fanciable or beautiful. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fitness

1. the state of being fit [n -ES]

Medical Definition of Fitness

1. 1. Well-being. 2. Suitability. 3. In population genetics, a measure of the relative survival and reproductive success of a given individual or phenotype, or of a population subgroup. 4. A set of attributes, primarily respiratory and cardiovascular, relating to ability to perform tasks requiring expenditure of energy. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fitness

fitchews fitchy fitché fitful fitfully fitfulness fitfulnesses fitlier fitliest fitly

fitment fitments fitna fitnah fitnas fitness (current term) fitness center fitness centers fitness model fitness models

fitnesses fitra fits fits and starts fits the bill fitt fittable fitte fitted fitted cap

Literary usage of Fitness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"With this, fitness easily passes from a formal to a metaphysical principle. In recent aesthetics the principle of utility has been discussed chiefly in ..."

2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"fitness NOT THE CAUSE OF BEAUTY IT is said that the idea of utility, or of a part's being well adapted to answer its end, is the cause of beauty, ..."

3. Company Precedents, for Use in Relation to Companies Subject to the by Francis Beaufort Palmer (1881)
"Evidence must be provided as to the fitness of the proposed liquidator, ... It is generally desirable to have more than one affidavit of fitness. ..."

4. A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and by Edmund Burke, Abraham Mills (1844)
"THE REAL EFFECTS OF fitness. WHEN I excluded proportion and fitness from any share in ... What was not intended to be said when proportion and fitness were ..."

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