An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
FITNESS
fitness, fittingness
(noun) the quality of being suitable; “they had to prove their fitness for the position”
fitness
(noun) the quality of being qualified
fitness, physical fitness
(noun) good physical condition; being in shape or in condition
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
fitness (usually uncountable, plural fitnesses)
The condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate.
The cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique.
(evolutionary theory) An organism's or species' degree of success in finding a mate and producing offspring.
(UK, 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
Anagrams
• infests, stefins
Source: Wiktionary
Fit"ness, n.
Definition: The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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