Synonyms for efficacy
ˈɛf ɪ kə sief·fi·ca·cy

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1. efficacynoun

   Synonyms:
   efficacity

2. efficacynoun

   Ability to produce a desired amount of a desired effect.

   Synonyms:
   efficacity

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1. efficacy

   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, capacity, cleverness, cogency, competency, dexterity, 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

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1. efficacy

   Synonyms:
   efficiency, competency, virtue, agency, capability, usefulness, energy, productiveness, effectiveness

   Antonyms:
   inefficiency, inutility, ineffectiveness

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1. efficacy, efficaciousnessnoun

   capacity or power to produce a desired effect

   "concern about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine"

   Synonyms:
   efficaciousness

   Antonyms:
   inefficaciousness, inefficacy

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1. • Effectiveness

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1. capable

   able to do

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

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1. efficacynoun

   Synonyms:
   potency, competency, power, strength, force, efficiency

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1. efficacynoun

   Synonyms:
   potency, effectiveness, efficiency, productiveness

   Antonyms:
   inefficacy, impotency

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1. List of paraphrases for "efficacy":

   effectiveness, efficiency, effective, efficient, efficiencies

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1. Larry Wolk:

   There's nowhere else in medicine where we give a patient some seeds and say, 'Go grow this and process it and then figure out how much you need,' we need research dollars so we can answer more questions about medical efficacy.

2. Munir Pirmohamed:

   Nevertheless, there was no evidence (to suggest) that those people over 65 were not getting evidence of efficacy, since then we’ve seen more data coming through from AstraZeneca as more people are completing the trial, which highlights again that efficacy in the elderly is seen, and there’s no evidence of lack of efficacy.

3. Michael Springborn:

   This suggests that efforts to utilize social distancing to mitigate disease spread may have a limited window of efficacy.

4. Suzanne Craft:

   Alzheimer's is a devastating illness, for which even small therapeutic gains have the potential to improve quality of life and significantly reduce the overall burden for patients, families and society, future studies are warranted to examine the safety and efficacy of this promising treatment.

5. Jose Ortega y Gasset:

   The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.