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Activity vs Instrumentality - What's the difference?

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Activity is a related term of instrumentality.


As nouns the difference between activity and instrumentality

is that activity is the state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities while instrumentality is (uncountable) the quality or condition of being instrumental; serving a purpose, being useful.

activity

English

(wikipedia activity)

Noun

(activities)
  • The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities.
  • Something done as an action or a movement.
  • Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities , ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
  • Use (of internet, playstation, bank account etc.).

    • Usage notes

    * Adjectives often used with "activity": increased, decreased, high, low, volcanic, seismic, eruptive, intellectual, physical, mental, spiritual, muscular, cerebral, favorite, recreational, practical, cultural, artistic, literary, musical, political, diplomatic, military, domestic, voluntary, missionary, chemical, optical, productive, reproductive, industrial, commercial, etc.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * rest * passivity

    Derived terms

    * radioactivity

    External links

    * * 1000 English basic words

    instrumentality

    English

    Noun

    (instrumentalities)
  • (uncountable) The quality or condition of being instrumental; serving a purpose, being useful.
  • *1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 294:
  • *:In a later vision the Saviour revealed to her in detail the ‘great design’ which he wished to establish through her instrumentality .
  • (countable, legal) A governmental organ with a specific purpose.
  • *1994 , :
  • *:Any work in which the copyright was ever owned or administered by the and in which the restored copyright would be owned by a government or instrumentality thereof, is not a restored work.
  • (countable) Something that is instrumental; an instrument
  • *{{quote-book, year=1838, author=American Anti-Slavery Society, title=The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He spoke of the various instrumentalities which were now employed for the conversion of the world.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1873, author=Helen Hunt Jackson, title=Bits About Home Matters, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Delays and failures will only set her to casting about for new instrumentalities . }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1914, author=Samuel F. B. Morse, title=Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=God works by instrumentalities , and he has wonderfully thus far interposed in keeping evils that I feared in abeyance. }}