Synonyms for capability
All synonyms
Noun
1. Ability
ability, power, skill, facility, talent, aptitude, efficiency, qualification, strength, competence, efficacy, competency, potentiality, proficiency, faculty, caliber US, calibre UK, touch, cleverness, craft, fitness, gift, endowment
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Definitions
- n. 1
The power or ability to generate an outcome.
Related words
- Word family
- capable
Forms
- Plural
- capabilities → abilities, powers, skills, facilities…
Example sentences
- ability He exceeds all his brothers in scholastic ability.
- talent His success is not so much by talent as by effort.
- facility Tom has a facility for acquiring foreign languages.
- skill Has Tom started learning a new skill for survival?
- capacity Mr Brown was acting in the capacity of ambassador.
By length
- 4 letters
- gift1
- 5 letters
- power2, touch1, reach1, skill1, craft1
- 6 letters
- talent2
- 7 letters
- ability4, fitness2, faculty3, caliber3, calibre
- 8 letters
- strength1, capacity4, facility4, efficacy4, aptitude3
- 9 letters
- endowment3
- 10 letters
- efficiency4, competence3, competency4, cleverness3
- 11 letters
- proficiency4
- 12 letters
- potentiality
- 13 letters
- qualification5
- 14 letters
- susceptibility6
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (power2 = 2 syllables).