Definitions for fitness

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fitness fit·ness

Spelling: [fit-nis]

IPA: /ˈfɪt nɪs/

Fitness is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 130 anagrams from letters in fitness (efinsst).

Definitions for fitness

noun

1. health.
2. capability of the body of distributing inhaled oxygen to muscle tissue during increased physical effort.
3. Also called Darwinian fitness. Biology. the genetic contribution of an individual to the next generation's gene pool relative to the average for the population, usually measured by the number of offspring or close kin that survive to reproductive age. the ability of a population to maintain or increase its numbers in succeeding generations.

Origin of fitness

First recorded in 1570-80; fit¹ + -ness

Examples for fitness

It did not occur to him to question his fitness for the work.

Or Sensoria, a new athletic-wear company whose socks have GPS and whose shirts have a fitness tracker built into the bra.

“LCDR Peters is an outstanding Supply Corps officer…” says one one fitness report from 2004.

Candidates must only be proposed for their fitness, and opposed on the ground of unfitness.

When the doctors in his group get fitness band data, they have time to put some thought into what the information implies.

Only this very morning I read her a sermon upon 'Propriety, and the fitness of things.'

The place had an Homeric simplicity and beauty which touched his sense of fitness.

The young girl no longer listened to these reasons of the fitness of things.

The amenities include a fitness room, a sauna, a beauty parlor, and a karaoke setup.

The NFL, for instance, has a fitness campaign designed to address childhood obesity.