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Grammar : Noun
Spell : key-puh-bil-i-tee
Phonetic Transcription : ˌkeɪ pəˈbɪl ɪ ti



Definition of capability

Origin :
  • 1580s, from capable + -ity. Capabilities "undeveloped faculty or property" is attested from 1778.
  • noun ability to perform
Example sentences :
  • They do not change the nature of truth and her capability and destiny to benefit mankind.
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • Also, at that time, he idolized his brother and believed in his shrewdness and capability.
  • Extract from : « Cap'n Warren's Wards » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • It was astonishing, his capacity for sleep and his capability in sleeping up to capacity.
  • Extract from : « Galusha the Magnificent » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • My capability for affection has no bearing on the present question.
  • Extract from : « The Crooked House » by Brandon Fleming
  • Her pride and capability of seeing where resistance was useless had the inconvenience.
  • Extract from : « Romola » by George Eliot
  • There is always a capability, an apparently left-over capability in him.
  • Extract from : « The Lost Art of Reading » by Gerald Stanley Lee
  • But the followers of the able Béhagle had not his capability.
  • Extract from : « The Tapestry Book » by Helen Churchill Candee
  • Of its capability of submitting to culture, there can be little doubt.
  • Extract from : « The Field and Garden Vegetables of America » by Fearing Burr
  • She had not a word now to say as to her husband's capability of judging for himself.
  • Extract from : « Framley Parsonage » by Anthony Trollope
  • There were in them determination and tenacity of purpose as well as the capability of passion.
  • Extract from : « That Fortune » by Charles Dudley Warner

Synonyms for capability

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