Antonyms for capability
ˌkeɪ pəˈbɪl ɪ tica·pa·bil·i·ty

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1. capability

   Power is the most general term of this group, including every quality, property, or faculty by which any change, effect, or result is, or may be, produced; as, the power of the legislature to enact laws, or of the executive to enforce them; the power of an acid to corrode a metal; the power of a polished surface to reflect light. Ability is nearly coextensive with power, but does not reach the positiveness and vigor that may be included in the meaning of power, ability often implying latent, as distinguished from active power; we speak of an exertion of power, but not of an exertion of ability. Power and ability include capacity, which is power to receive; but ability is often distinguished from capacity, as power that may be manifested in doing, as capacity is in receiving; one may have great capacity for acquiring knowledge, and yet not possess ability to teach. Efficiency is active power to effect a definite result, the power that actually does, as distinguished from that which may do. Competency is equal to the occasion, readiness prompt for the occasion. Faculty is an inherent quality of mind or body; talent, some special mental ability. Dexterity and skill are readiness and facility in action, having a special end; talent is innate, dexterity and skill are largely acquired. Our abilities include our natural capacity, faculties, and talents, with all the dexterity, skill, and readiness that can be acquired. Efficacy is the power to produce an intended effect as shown in the production of it; as, the efficacy of a drug. Efficiency is effectual agency, competent power; efficiency is applied in mechanics as denoting the ratio of the effect produced to the power expended in producing it; but this word is chiefly used of intelligent agents as denoting the quality that brings all one's power to bear promptly and to the best purpose on the thing to be done. Compare ADDRESS; DEXTERITY; SKILFUL.

   Antonyms:
   awkwardness, dulness, feebleness, helplessness, imbecility, impotence, inability, inaptitude, incapacity, incompetence, inefficiency, maladroitness, stupidity, unskilfulness, weakness

   Synonyms:
   ability, aptitude, capacity, cleverness, cogency, competency, dexterity, efficacy, efficiency, energy, expertness, faculty, force, might, power, qualification, readiness, skill, strength, susceptibility, talent

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1. capability

   Antonyms:
   dulness, inaptitude, awkwardness, difficulty

   Synonyms:
   cleverness, aptitude, talent, capacity, power, facility, faculty

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1. • Ability

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1. capability, capablenessnoun

   the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally

   "he worked to the limits of his capability"

   Antonyms:
   incapability, incapableness

   Synonyms:
   capacity, capableness, potentiality

2. capability, capacitynoun

   the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment

   "the capability of a metal to be fused"

   Antonyms:
   incapability, incapableness

   Synonyms:
   potentiality, mental ability, capacity, capacitance, capableness, content, electrical capacity

3. capability, capableness, potentialitynoun

   an aptitude that may be developed

   Antonyms:
   incapability, incapableness

   Synonyms:
   capacity, potency, capableness, potential, potentiality

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1. capabilitynoun

   Synonyms:
   ability, capacity, competency, qualification, efficiency, proficiency

How to use capability in a sentence?

1. Sima Nan:

   You can't rule out that somebody merely wants to display that they have the capability to break into and steal internal information from the public security system.

2. Brian Flewelling:

   We continue to track SJ-21 and monitor it for conjunctions with all known space objects. The ability to maintain custody of SJ-21 after this large daytime maneuver is an important and unique capability of Exo’s commercial SSA network.

3. Victorino Mercado:

   You can take a situation where in the early stages we could be extremely outnumbered and by adding this capability and to be able to shape that battle space, that's an enormous equalizer and that could allow more( Victorino Mercado) forces to flow in, we can create areas for the enemy to avoid.

4. Kingston Reif:

   Missile Defense Review states that North Korea has yet to achieve the capability to credibly threaten the Kingston Reif homeland. North Korea has not conducted enough tests to establish confidence in a reliable, working missile. But we have to assume that North Korea has a nuclear-armed ICBM that could strike the Kingston Reif, even if the missile only have a 50 % chance of hitting a major Kingston Reif city, that's enough to establish a modicum of deterrence.

5. David Kennedy:

   When you move that over to a public email address or a personal account, you lose all of that backup capability, so there's no way to actually go back and retrieve it.

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