What is another word for capability?
Synonyms for capability
ˌkeɪ pəˈbɪl ɪ tica·pa·bil·i·ty
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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.
Synonyms:
ability, aptitude, capacity, cleverness, cogency, competency, dexterity, efficacy, efficiency, energy, expertness, faculty, force, might, power, qualification, readiness, skill, strength, susceptibility, talentAntonyms:
awkwardness, dulness, feebleness, helplessness, imbecility, impotence, inability, inaptitude, incapacity, incompetence, inefficiency, maladroitness, stupidity, unskilfulness, weakness
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
capability
Synonyms:
cleverness, aptitude, talent, capacity, power, facility, facultyAntonyms:
dulness, inaptitude, awkwardness, difficulty
Princeton's WordNet
capability, capablenessnoun
the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally
"he worked to the limits of his capability"
Synonyms:
capacity, capableness, potentialityAntonyms:
incapability, incapablenesscapability, capacitynoun
the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment
"the capability of a metal to be fused"
Synonyms:
potentiality, mental ability, capacity, capacitance, capableness, content, electrical capacityAntonyms:
incapability, incapablenesscapability, capableness, potentialitynoun
an aptitude that may be developed
Synonyms:
capacity, potency, capableness, potential, potentialityAntonyms:
incapability, incapableness
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
capabilitynoun
Synonyms:
capableness, capacity, ability, ableness, skill, competency, efficiency
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
capabilitynoun
Synonyms:
ability, capacity, competency, qualification, efficiency, proficiency
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "capability":
capacity, ability, capacities, capabilities, functionality, abilities, capacity-, potential, proficiency, skills
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#307 | power | |
#395 | content | |
#634 | might | |
#671 | energy | |
#1022 | force | |
#1120 | skills | |
#1224 | potential | |
#1561 | faculty | |
#1589 | ability | |
#1686 | capacity | |
#1865 | facility | |
#2814 | strength | |
#3311 | efficiency | |
#3988 | capabilities | |
#4391 | skill | |
#4942 | capability | |
#5021 | functionality | |
#5170 | talent | |
#7577 | abilities | |
#8406 | qualification | |
#11026 | efficacy | |
#12633 | proficiency | |
#12653 | readiness | |
#13549 | competency | |
#13645 | capacities | |
#17794 | susceptibility | |
#22990 | potency | |
#25223 | capacitance | |
#26088 | aptitude | |
#32408 | dexterity | |
#69512 | cleverness | |
#86131 | potentiality | |
#213211 | cogency |
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Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens.
How I foresee our hospitals being used is during the early stages of the pandemic, the virus hitting a city where they're still trying to ramp up capability, bed space, we can come in for a short period of time, for a few weeks to provide that capacity until they get either gyms converted, hotels converted, college dorms converted, all those things that the Corps of Engineers is working on right now.
We now have a strategic option with a footprint on the ground that gives us more flexibility and more capability to look at other alternatives.
They really need to club together and build their ... capacity to supply integrated solutions to customers -- whether it be customers in Australia or as we look not just to export hydrogen as a commodity but export our capability and knowhow.
When they thought they were getting out of this they are back in it, i do think it's about competence and capability and telling the truth and using all of the tools that are at the president's disposal.
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