Etymology

activeness

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Today it means: The state or quality of being active. Full definition →

English active ← Middle English actyf ← Old French actif
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The story

  1. Old Frenchactif
  2. Middle Englishactyf
  3. Englishactive
  4. English todayactiveness

From active + -ness.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.