noun
1. the quality of being suitable (Freq. 3)
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they had to prove their fitness for the position
• Syn: ↑fittingness
• Ant: ↑unfitness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑fitting (for: ↑fittingness), ↑fit
• Hypernyms: ↑suitability, ↑suitableness
• Hyponyms: ↑qualification, ↑making, ↑habitability, ↑habitableness
2. good physical condition; being in shape or in condition (Freq. 1)
• Syn: ↑physical fitness
• Ant: ↑unfitness
• Hyponyms: ↑fettle
3. fitness to traverse the seas
• Syn: ↑seaworthiness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑seaworthy (for: ↑seaworthiness)
• Hypernyms: ↑soundness
• Attrubites: ↑seaworthy, ↑unseaworthy
4. the quality of being qualified
• Derivationally related forms: ↑fit
• Hypernyms: ↑competence, ↑competency
Useful english dictionary. 2012.