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. John Pappas:

   .What I found in the intelligence … is that international terror organizations like al Qaeda, ISIS and many others were intentionally creating a gap in our detection capability specific to the dog, they were kind of gearing it to avoid detection by a dog.

2. Ben Moores:

   This gives them a much better strike capability, because the targeting system is much better than what their existing aircraft have, probably the biggest difference is that it comes with advanced radar, which is effectively like moving from analog to digital.

3. Richard Peirce:

   A shark has got no paws or hands, so if it wants to explore something, the only capability it's got to do that is to put it in its mouth, that's why we often get exploratory bites which don't result in death and sometimes don't even result in serious injury. If you go swimming and splashing away, you're almost inviting the shark to come give you an exploratory or an attack bite.

4. Purdue Pharma:

   Lest there by any confusion, let me be clear. The entirety of Purdue means just that, your honor, 100 % of Purdue's assets -- including its sizeable cash position of more than $ 1 billion, all of its products, revenues, contract rights, intellectual property, insurance proceeds, as well as its accumulated expertise, knowledge, and manufacturing capability.

5. Defense Mark Esper:

   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.

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