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Synonyms for capacity
kəˈpæs ɪ tica·pac·i·ty

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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. capacitynoun

    Synonyms:
    throughput

  2. capacitynoun

    Electrical capacitance.

    Synonyms:
    throughput

  3. capacitynoun

    The maximum that can be produced on a machine or in a facility or group.

    Its capacity rating was 150 tons per hour, but its actual maximum capacity was 200 tons per hour.

    Synonyms:
    throughput

  4. capacitynoun

    Filling the allotted space.

    There will be a capacity crowd at Busch stadium for the sixth game.

    Synonyms:
    throughput

  5. capacitynoun

    A measure of such ability; volume

    Synonyms:
    throughput

  6. capacitynoun

    The maximum amount that can be held

    Synonyms:
    throughput

  7. capacitynoun

    Capability; the ability to perform some task

    Synonyms:
    throughput

  8. capacitynoun

    The maximum that can be produced.

    Synonyms:
    throughput

  9. capacitynoun

    Mental ability; the power to learn

    Synonyms:
    throughput

  10. capacitynoun

    A faculty; the potential for growth and development

    Synonyms:
    throughput

  11. capacitynoun

    A role; the position in which one functions

    Synonyms:
    throughput

  12. capacitynoun

    Legal authority (to make an arrest for example)

    Synonyms:
    throughput

English Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. capacity

    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, capability, cleverness, cogency, competency, dexterity, efficacy, efficiency, energy, expertness, faculty, force, might, power, qualification, readiness, skill, strength, susceptibility, talent

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

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. capacitynoun

    capability to perform or produce

    "among his gifts is his capacity for true altruism"; "limited runway capacity"; "a great capacity for growth"

    Synonyms:
    mental ability, content, capacitance, electrical capacity, capability

    Antonyms:
    incapacity

  2. capability, capacitynoun

    the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment

    "the capability of a metal to be fused"

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

    Antonyms:
    incapacity

  3. capacity, contentnoun

    the amount that can be contained

    "the gas tank has a capacity of 12 gallons"

    Synonyms:
    mental object, capacitance, depicted object, contentedness, substance, message, subject matter, capability, cognitive content, subject, mental ability, content, electrical capacity

    Antonyms:
    incapacity

  4. capacitynoun

    the maximum production possible

    "the plant is working at 80 per cent capacity"

    Synonyms:
    mental ability, content, capacitance, electrical capacity, capability

    Antonyms:
    incapacity

  5. capacitynoun

    a specified function

    "he was employed in the capacity of director"; "he should be retained in his present capacity at a higher salary"

    Synonyms:
    mental ability, content, capacitance, electrical capacity, capability

    Antonyms:
    incapacity

  6. capacitynoun

    (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive

    "the capacity of a hard disk drive is usually expressed in megabytes"

    Synonyms:
    mental ability, content, capacitance, electrical capacity, capability

    Antonyms:
    incapacity

  7. capacitance, electrical capacity, capacitynoun

    an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored

    Synonyms:
    electrical condenser, capacitance, capacitor, mental ability, condenser, capability, content, electrical capacity

    Antonyms:
    incapacity

  8. capacity, mental abilitynoun

    the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior

    Synonyms:
    mental ability, content, capacitance, electrical capacity, capability

    Antonyms:
    incapacity

  9. capacitynoun

    tolerance for alcohol

    "he had drunk beyond his capacity"

    Synonyms:
    mental ability, content, capacitance, electrical capacity, capability

    Antonyms:
    incapacity

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. compacity

    Submitted by anchalisrani659 on April 29, 2022  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. capacitynoun

    Synonyms:
    capaciousness, magnitude (in reference to contents), volume, dimensions, amplitude, extent of room or space

  2. capacitynoun

    Synonyms:
    power (of apprehension), faculty, talent, genius, gift, turn, FORTE, parts, brains, aptness, aptitude, discernment, wit, mother-wit, calibre

  3. capacitynoun

    Synonyms:
    ABILITY, ableness, capability, cleverness, skill, skilfulness, competency, efficiency, readiness

  4. capacitynoun

    Synonyms:
    office, post, sphere, province, character, function, service, charge

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. capacity

    Synonyms:
    MedspeakUK Organisational capacity Psychology Mental capacity

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How to use capacity in a sentence?

  1. Kristi Noem:

    This is our problem, and together, we need to get on it, it is filling our jails and prisons, clogging our court systems, and stretching our drug treatment capacity while destroying people and their families.

  2. Canaccord Genuity Brooks:

    What will definitely not recover anytime soon is pure-play asset companies, those where margins are more or less directly linked to asset rates, or those where capacity is incredibly difficult to actually take out – like Seadrill (SDRL.OL), Transocean [RIGTN.UL], Vallourec (VLLP.PA), Fugro (FUGRc.AS), Subsea 7, or Saipem.

  3. Sholom Lipskar:

    This is something that transcends our capacity for understanding, it's a reality, we accept it and we have to learn as we do in our culture of resilience to move forward.

  4. Aretha Franklin:

    What made her talent so great was her capacity to live what she sang, her music was deepened by her connection to the struggles and the triumphs of the African American experience growing up in her father's church, the community of Detroit, and her awareness of the turmoil of the South.

  5. Alasdair Macintyre:

    If someone says that he cares for some individual, community, or cause, but is unwilling to risk harm or danger on his, her, or its behalf, he puts into question the genuineness of his care and concern. Courage, the capacity to risk harm or danger to oneself, has its role in human life because of this connection with care and concern


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