capacity
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3.5
- noun
- /kəˈpæsɪti/
:
capacidad
- Children develop most of their capacity for learning during their first three years of life.
- build capacity
- adaptive capacity
- capacity building
But you have the strength and capacity to make it better.
- But you have the strength and capacity to make it better.
- The belief that I do not have the capacity here and now.
- So you've never lost the capacity to recover that sense.
- Well, we have to increase our capacity to be with discomfort.
- Insight refers to a capacity for self reflection.
- I just don't believe I had the capacity to do that.
- So it's giving myself the capacity to be random.
- And I knew that somewhere in me, the capacity to get there does exist.
- Family people have the capacity to transmit their energy.
- And the greatest force is a man's capacity to adapt and invent.
- This is where people miss my growth capacity is humongous.
Examples
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Her capacity for survival is greater than anything we could ever have imagined.
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It's your, your brain's capacity to process information that makes you who you are.
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But you have the strength and capacity to make it better.
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It's like this capacity is within each of us.
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Believe it or not, you have a great capacity for love.
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Well, most humans have the capacity for love.
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Some residents with dementia will have the capacity to make decisions about their needs.
Academic text (2011) -
Emotional intelligence is the enhanced capacity to recognize and control one's own emotions.
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She said her mother was in a nursing home and did not have the mental capacity to vote.
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Everyone has the capacity to learn new skills, regardless of their age.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Skill or power to do something
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1.0
Physical or mental strength to do something
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3.7
The ability to think clearly and make decisions
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3.7
A skill that lets you think, learn, and remember information
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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6.1
Largest amount of data a channel can send without errors, usually measured in bits per second
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4.7
Amount of electric charge a device can store, like a capacitor
- Specialized
A unit used to measure how much a container can hold, like a liter or gallon
- Specialized
A unit for measuring how much liquid a container holds, like a liter or a gallon
- Specialized
An amount of resources a plan gives for services like storage or computer power
- Specialized
The usable storage space on a disk when you prepare it for use, excluding space used by system information
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The number showing how much more heat a material needs at constant pressure than at constant volume
A unit that measures volume in the British Imperial system, like a gallon or pint
How Capable
Surface Forms
Morphology
capacity = capac + ity
The noun is built from the stem capac- + -ity, but 'capac' is not a standalone modern English word; the abstract sense 'ability' is a semantic extension that some learners may infer from related words (capable, capacious) but is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Capacity comes from the Latin root capere 'to take' or 'to hold' and from capax 'able to hold'. Like the word capable, it shows what someone can 'hold' in skill or tolerance, so it means a person's ability.