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Capability

Definitions: Capability

Capability

Noun

1. The quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally; "he worked to the limits of his capability".

2. The susceptibility of something to a particular treatment; "the capability of a metal to be fused".

3. An aptitude that may be developed.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "capability" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Capability

DomainDefinitions

Computing

Capability An operating system security or access control model where specific types of access to a specific object are granted by giving a process this data structure or token. The token may be unforgeable (typically by using encryption or hardware "tagged" memory). Capabilities are used in OSes such as Hydra, KeyKOS, EROS, Chorus/Mix, and the Stanford V system. Similar to Kerberos, but in an OS context. Compare access control list. (1998-03-08). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Aerospace

A power or capacity to do something. Compare characteristic.Capabilities belong to people, organized forces, or things. (references)

Energy

The maximum load that a generating station can carry under specified conditions for a given period of time without exceeding approved limits of temperature and stress. (references)

Language

Le personnel et l'équipement d'un organisme. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Capability

Synonyms: capableness (n), capacity (n), potentiality (n). (additional references)
Antonym: incapability (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Capability

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Facility

Noun: facility, ease; easiness; Adjective: capability; feasibility; (practicability); flexibility, pliancy; smoothness.

Influence

Noun: influence; importance; weight, pressure, preponderance, prevalence, sway; predominance, predominancy; ascendency; dominance, reign; control, domination, pull; authority; capability; (power); effect; interest.

Intrinsicality

Endowment, capacity; capability; (power).

Power

Capability, capacity; quid valeant humeri quid ferre recusent; faculty, quality, attribute, endowment, virtue, gift, property, qualification, susceptibility.

Skill

Cleverness, talent, ability, ingenuity, capacity, parts, talents, faculty, endowment, forte, turn, gift, genius; intelligence; sharpness, readiness; (activity); invention; aptness, aptitude; turn for, capacity for, genius for; felicity, capability, curiosa felicitas, qualification, habilitation.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Capability

English words defined with "capability": Addibility, Alienability, Appellancy, associability, associablenessbloodthirstinessCapabilities, capacity, Cheatableness, Communicability, compass, compatibility, Condensability, Conductibility, Confusability, Contractibility, contractility, Controllability, Controllableness, Corrigibility, corruptibility, curability, curablenessDeceivableness, Defensibility, Defensibleness, demilitarise, demilitarize, demonstrability, derate, Descendibility, Determinableness, Diffusibility, disarm, DiscerptibilityEducability, Effumability, envelope, equatability, Exhaustibility, ExuviabilityFermentabilityGenerability, graspInfusibilitylogicalmacro, Magnetic susceptibility, micro, military capability, military posture, military strength, Miscibility, Modifiability, murderousnessoperating capability, Ordinability, Organizability, overkill, Oxidabilityperfectability, perfectibility, performance capability, Persuasibility, Ponibility, possibility, possibleness, posture, provabilityrange, reach, ReflexibilitySavableness, security intelligence, separability, spinnability, strength, Suscitabilityvisibility, Vitrescence, volitionwill. (references)
Specialty definitions using "capability": Administrative Capability, Advanced Power Management, Advanced query, aeromedical evacuation control center, airfield damage repair, ALGOL 68C, allergenic property, ANCILLARY SERVICES, artificial neural network, available but not needed capabilitybuffered BCDCapability Maturity Model, card-programmed, CATALOG INTEROPERABILITY, cereal miller, circuit-mode 64 kbits unrestricted, Clinical Competence, Commodore 1570, computer systems engineer, COMPUTER SYSTEMS HARDWARE ANALYST, concurrent I/0, conversational terminal, counter air operationdecentralized control system, descriptor, Desired plant community, diminished responsibility, display standard, distributed control system, DOCMaker, dumb devices, dumb terminalearth-referenced, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory, electromagnetic compatibility, Electronic Combat, EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES COORDINATOR, Endogenous Retroviruses, eXperimental LISPFeasibility Studies, FLAKE MILLER, WHEAT AND OATS, FURNITURE DESIGNERgel retardation assay, gel shift assay, genericity of a languagehibernating spacecraft, high potential, hipot, hi-potinformation processing engineer, Intermodal Compatibility, interoperability, inter-operabilitykey geographic location, key service unit facilities, KGL, KSU facilitiesLABORATORY MANAGER, Land capability, Limiting condition for operation, line load control, Loss of coolant accidentMANAGER, ARMORED TRANSPORT SERVICE, manometric efficiency, Manufacturer Resource Planning, mechanical facilities, mechanized equipment, methods analyst, data processin, METROLOGIST, military nuclear power, Minicomputers, MPC Level 1 Specification, MPC Level 2 Specification, multiple interferometer determination of trajectoriesNet summer capability, nuclear weapons statePregnenolone Carbonitrile, Procomm, production controller, PRODUCTION COORDINATOR, production expediter, production scheduler, Professional Competence, progress clerk, PROTOTYPE INSTRUMENT, PS-ALGOLQUALITY CONTROL TECHNICIAN, quantum computerrandom access storage, random access store, real-time ride matching, RECORDS-MANAGEMENT ANALYST, recovery function, remote sensing, robotic visionsales-service supervisor, schedule clerk, second strike capability, self-learning. (references)
Etymologies containing "capability": EffumabilityOrdinabilitySuscitability. (references)

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Modern Usage: Capability

DomainUsage

Screenplays

A fleet boat of the Navy, with most of her fighting capability intact! (Run Silent Run Deep; writing credit: Edward L. Beach; John Gay)

We have the capability to build the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. (The Six Million Dollar Man; writing credit: Larry Brody; Richard Carr)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Capability

DomainTitle

References

  • The World Market for Numerically Controlled, Metalworking Flat-Surface Grinding Machines with the Capability of Positioning Any One Axis to an Accuracy of At Least 0.01 mm: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Capability Brown (reference)

  • Capability Brown : the story of a master gardener (reference)

  • Company Analysis: Determining Strategic Capability (reference)

  • Four Practical Revolutions in Management : Systems for Creating Unique Organizational Capability (reference)

  • Implementing the Capability Maturity Model (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Capability

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Using a unique capability of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) astronomers announced today ...Credit: NASA.

Capability and availability.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Capability

AuthorQuotation

Thomas Carlyle

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Capability

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Cells that have the capability of displaying antigen with MHC are called antigen-presenting cells. (references)

These characteristics of our service systems make the search for help an onerous journey and one beyond the capability of many older people. (references)

In a deteriorating clinical situation, adherent clots may be removed as long as there is satisfactory endoscopic access and capability for treatment. (references)

Business

This does not mean that Norway is abandoning a "total defense" capability. (references)

AIDC was founded to secure an aerospace manufacturing capability in Taiwan. (references)

Indeed, Romania has the capability for designing and erecting complete plants. (references)

Civil Liberties

Liberia

For those persons and businesses with satellite capability, the Cable News Network is available. (references)

Cuba

The Government continued to limit the Catholic Church's access to the media and refused to allow the Catholic Church to have a legal independent printing capability. (references)

Economic History

China

China's power-projection capability is limited but has grown over recent years. (references)

Human Rights

Croatia

These factors continued to impede development of local police capability. (references)

Fiji

However, the Home Affairs Ministry, as well as the police and the armed forces, have the power and capability to search persons and property, access private financial records, and monitor mail and telephones when a warrant is issued by the National Security Council. (references)

Minorities

Estonia

The Citizenship Law provides that the residency requirement for naturalization is 5 years and requires knowledge of the Constitution and the Citizenship Law, as well as Estonian language capability. (references)

Political Economy

Angola

It maintained a significant military capability, and it refused to surrender to state administration the territory it held. (references)

Colombia

As part of its assistance to "Plan Colombia," the U.S. government is providing equipment, training, and technical assistance to the Colombian anti-narcotics police and the military to increase their capability to eradicate illicit coca and poppy cultivation and to conduct interdiction operations. (references)

Trade

Brazil

Testing must generally be performed in country unless the needed capability does not exist in Brazil. (references)

Women

Singapore

Those laws allow Muslim men to practice polygyny, although requests to take additional spouses may be refused by the Registry of Muslim Marriages, which solicits the views of an existing spouse or spouses and reviews financial capability. (references)

Worker Rights

Micronesia

The Department of Health has no enforcement capability; working conditions vary in practice. (references)

Nepal

While the Government lacks both the resources and institutional capability to address effectively its trafficking problem, the Government has established a National Task Force at MOWCSW with personnel assigned to coordinate the response. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Capability

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Porter Goss

Oh, absolutely. And there's a difference, of course, a distinction between the nuclear capability and the other aspects of threat posed by Saddam Hussein, not necessarily the Iraqi people. I think those are important distinctions.

Ross Perot

Well, I was never surprised at the American people, because the heart of America is the people. This is their country. It belongs to them. They are the owners, and they have tremendous capability.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Capability

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Gerald Ford

1974-1977Without effective intelligence capability, the United States stands blindfolded and hobbled.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981They assist friendly and allied nations to develop the capability to defend themselves and maintain their own independence.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989We are just now restoring, through the essential modernization of our conventional and strategic forces, our capability to meet our present and future security needs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Capability

"Capability" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.23% of the time. "Capability" is used about 900 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)95.23%8578,245
Noun (proper)4.66%4252,864
Noun (common)0.11%1339,140
                    Total100.00%900N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Capability

Expressions using "capability": airlift capability area navigation capability available but not needed capability capability Maturity Model capability provider capability to do smth. combat capability excel in capability military capability operating capability performance capability resolution capability resolving capability second strike capability separating capability shallow fording capability statement of capability to implement a project surge withstand capability. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "capability": high-capability.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Capability

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

capability maturity model

131

capability

47

capability computer

43

process capability

40

singing machine w video capability

19

capability computer limitation

15

capability study

14

capability cooperative engagement

11

capability brown

9

capability imaging laser

9

a negative capability

8

capability maturity model for software

8

capability statement

8

capability brochure

7

capability corporate

7

capability integration maturity model

6

capability intelligent network set

5

capability mission package

5

screw machining capability

4

capability commerce e

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Capability

Language Translations for "capability"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

mundësi (capacity, chance, eventuality, handle, ingress, likelihood, look in, odds, opportunity, possibility, potential, potentiality, power, presumption, probability, scope, space, wherewithal), aftësi (ability, accomplishment, aptitude, bent, capacity, disposition, facility, faculty, flair, gift, hand, knack, know how, neatness, power, proficiency, qualification, science, skill, talent, value). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏كفاءة (ability, adequacy, aptitude, capacity, competence, efficiency, fitness, qualification, qualifications), ‏كفاءات قابلة للتطوير, ‏مقدرة (ability, energy, potency, power, strength), ‏موهبة (aptitude, endowment, facility, flair, genius, gift, instinct, knack, skill, talent, vocation), ‏قابلية (disposition, faculty, predisposition, susceptibility, tendency), ‏قدرة (ability, capacity, faculty, fitness, leverage, might, potency, power, qualification, strength), ‏تضلع (mastery). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

способност (ability, aptness, bump, capacity, competence, competency, efficiency, faculty, fitness, flair, notion, power, quality, sufficiency, turn), талант (ability, accomplishment, dowry, endowment, gift, talent), дееспособност. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

能力 (ability, able, capable). (various references)

   

Czech

  

schopnost (ability, aptitude, efficiency, faculty, hand, intellect, power, skill, talent, vocation). (various references)

   

Danish

  

beføjelse. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

geschiktheid (ability, aptitude, equalification, fitness, suitability, suitability for use, wholesomeness). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

taŭgeco (ability, fitness, suitability). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

قابلیت (Ability, Sufficiency), صلاحیت (Ability, Capacity, Competence, Qualification), استعدادپیشرفت . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kyky (ability, accomplishment, aptitude, capacity, disposition, talent). (various references)

   

French

  

capacité (capacitance, capacity, machine capacity). (various references)

   

German

  

Fähigkeit (ability, aptitude, competence, efficiency, faculty, feature, literacy, property, skill, skillfulness). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ικανότητα (ability, aptitude, aptitude for, caliber, calibre, capableness, capacity, competence, efficiency, faculty, fitness, knack, proficiency, prowess, rating, skill, sufficiency). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

יכולת (ability, capacity, competence, faculty, possibility, power), כושר (ability, aptitude, capacity, faculty, power, propriety, worthiness), כשרון (ability, aptitude, competence, endowment, facility, flair, genius, gift, knack, talent). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

adottság (aptitude, aptness, dower, endowment, facility, makings, talent), képesség (ability, absorptivity, accomplishment, attainments, caliber, calibre, capacity, dower, facility, faculty, genious, gift, reach, talent). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kemampuan (ability, competence, faculty). (various references)

   

Italian

  

capacit (ability, capacitance, capacity, competence, competency, possibility, power, storage, volume), capability, facolt (faculty, knack, school, warrantirs), abilit (ability, accomplishment, adeptness, adroitness, artifice, capacity, cleverness, craft, cunning, expertise, expertness, ingenuity, knack, know how, mastership, mastery, proficiency, prowess, skilfulness, skill, skillfulness, sleight). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(ability, agency, attainment, authority, efficacy, emphasis, endeavors, energy, exertions, faculty, force, good offices, help, influence, means, might, power, resources, strength, stress, support, vigor), ケーソン病 (cable, cable car, caisson disease, cane, cape, care, care taker, careless mistake, case, catering service, caving, chaos, wellness care). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ケーパ"リティ , ちから (ability, agency, attainment, authority, efficacy, emphasis, endeavors, energy, exertions, faculty, force, good offices, help, influence, means, might, power, resources, strength, stress, support, vigor). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(Abilities, Ability, Capabilities, Faculties, Faculty). (various references)

   

Manx

  

jargallys, jargaght (ability, possibility). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

evne (faculty), dyktighet (ability). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

apabilitycay

   

Portuguese

  

capacidade (ability, aptitude, aptness, art, attainment, bulk, capacitance, capacity, clearance, competence, competency, content, contents, coryphaeus, craft, cunning, daylight, efficient, energy, faculty, fitness, genius, head, know how, load, measure, part, power, proficiency, reach, room, size, tankage). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

capacitate (ability, capaciousness, capacity, competence, content, efficiency, fitness, gift, mastermind, measure, output, power, talent, tankage, volume), talent (ability, accomplishments, aptitude, dower, dowry, endowment, facility, faculty, felicity, genius, gift, ingenuity, knack, part, skill, talent, turn, twist), randament (accomplishment, benefit, capacity, effect, efficacy, efficiency, load, output, outturn, performance, power, rating, return, yield), pricepere (ability, cleverness, competence, fitness, gumption, ingenuousness, knack, know how, management, qualification, savvy, sconce, skill, understanding), aptitudine (ability, accomplishment, aptitude, aptness, capaciousness, capacity, fitness). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

способность (ability, aptitude, aptness, capacity, competence, facility, faculty, flair, gift, power, skills and talents). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sposobnost (ability, acumen, aptitude, aptness, capacity, competence, competency, facility, faculty, fitness, talent, touch), moć (faculty, grasp, leverage, might, mightiness, potency, power). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

capacidad (ability, accommodation, accomplishment, aptitude, aptness, caliber, calibre, calling, capacitance, capacity, competence, competency, disposition, electric utility capacity, equalification, fitness, know how, liking, power, proficiency, size, suitability, talent), disposición (ability, accomplishment, aptitude, arrangement, decree, deposition, disposal, disposition, fitness, gift, lay out, layout, order, ordinance, provision, ready, setup, suitability, talent). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

möjlighet (ability, chanse, eventuality, feasibility, opportunity, possibility, probability, way). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ความสามารถ (art, hand). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yetenek (ability, accomplishment, accomplishments, aptitude, aptness, artistry, bent, caliber, calibre, capacity, competence, competency, disposition, dower, dowry, efficiency, facility, faculty, fitness, flair, gift, hand, instinct, parts, power, prerogative, quality, skill, talent, vocation), kapasite (capacity), kabiliyet (accomplishments, aptitude, aptness, capacity, dower, faculty, flair, gift, instinct, prerogative, quality, skill, talent, vocation), iktidar (ability, capacity, potency, potential, power), güç (ability, arduous, arm, baffling, capacity, clout, clutch, clutches, command, control, difficult, dominance, energy, force, forcefulness, hard, intensity, iron, might, pep, pith, potency, potential, power, punch, rod, sinew, spirit, stamina, steam, sting, strength, stuffing, sword, tone, tricksy, vigor, vigour, vim, vis, vitality, zing). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

ukyp (ability, talent). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

обдарованість (ability, aptitude, aptness, cleverness, genius), можливості (facilities), здібність (ability, aptitude, aptness, brightness, bump, cleverness, faculty, felicity, talent, turn, verve), здатність (ability, facility, flair, skill, sufficiency). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

khả năng (faculty, possibility, potentiality, power, reach, room). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Capability

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

capacitas. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Capability

Derivations

Words ending with "capability": incapability. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Capability" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Capabilty, capiability, cappability, cupability, shapability. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Capability"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "capability" (pronounced kā'pubi"lutē)
8-p u b i" l u t ēculpability.
7-u b i" l u t ēability, acceptability, accessibility, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, fallibility, feasibility, flammability, flexibility, gullibility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incompatibility, indestructibility, inevitability, infallibility, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irresponsibility, irritability, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, palatability, permeability, plausibility, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, sensibility, stability, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, variability, viability, visibility, vulnerability.
6-b i" l u t ēimmobility, mobility, nobility.
5-i" l u t ēagility, civility, docility, ductility, facility, fertility, fragility, futility, gentility, hostility, humility, incivility, infertility, motility, nonutility, senility, sterility, tranquility, utility, versatility, virility, volatility.
4-l u t ēabnormality, accountability, actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, collegiality, commonality, conditionality, confidentiality, congeniality, constitutionality, credulity, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, duality, equality, eventuality, extraterritoriality, fatality, fidelity, finality, formality, frivolity, frugality, functionality, generality, geniality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, incredulity, individuality, inequality, infidelity, informality, instrumentality, irrationality, legality, lethality, liberality, locality, materiality, mentality, modality, morality, mortality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, normality, originality, partiality, personality, plurality, polity, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, quality, rationality, reality, seasonality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, speciality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, totality, triviality, universality, unreality, venality, vitality.
3-u t ēabsurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, laity, laxity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Capability

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-i-i-l-p-t-y"

-2 letters: atypical, pitiably.

-3 letters: ability, albitic, aplitic, capably, capital, playact, tilapia, typical.

-4 letters: apical, atypic, capita, italic, tibial.

-5 letters: aalii, abaci, alibi, aliya, aptly, biali, bialy, cabal, cilia, clapt, clipt, icily, iliac, labia, laity, licit, litai, lytic, patly, pibal, pical, plait, platy, playa, plica, tabla, tibia, tical, typal, typic.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-i-i-l-p-t-y"
 

+1 letter: packability, placability.

 

+2 letters: incapability.

 

+3 letters: acceptability, applicability, comparability, implacability, impracticably.

 

+4 letters: parabiotically, practicability.

 

+5 letters: approachability, inapplicability, incomparability, unacceptability.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Capability


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 70 61 62 69 6C 69 74 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01110000 01100001 01100010 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#112 &#97 &#98 &#105 &#108 &#105 &#116 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0070 0061 0062 0069 006C 0069 0074 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37678267687578758691

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Quotations: Spoken
10. Quotations: Speeches
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Translations: Ancient
16. Derivations
17. Rhymes
18. Anagrams
19. Orthography
20. Bibliography


  

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