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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability, competency in some |
| Synonyms: | action capability, capacity, commensurateness, competence, enough, fairness, plenty, requisiteness, satisfactoriness, sufficiency, suitableness, tolerableness |
| Antonyms: | inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency |
| Main Entry: | capacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability; competency |
| Synonyms: | adequacy, aptitude, aptness, bent, brains, caliber, capability, cleverness, compass, competence, efficiency, facility, faculty, forte, genius, gift, inclination, intelligence, knack, might, power, qualification, readiness, skill, stature, strength, talent, the goods, up to it, what it takes |
| Notes: | applied to a person, ability and capacity mean about the same thing but are grammatically different: an ability to do something, a capacity for doing something; ability is qualitative while capacity is quantitative capacity refers to a general ability to comprehend an issue or perform a task; capability implies a reference to one of a set of such abilities |
| Antonyms: | impotence, inability, incompetence |
| Main Entry: | competence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability |
| Synonyms: | adequacy, appropriateness, capability, capacity, competency, cutting it, cutting the mustard, expertise, fitness, hacking it, know-how, making the grade, makings, might, moxie, proficiency, qualification, qualifiedness, savvy, skill, suitability, the goods, the right stuff, what it takes |
| Notes: | competence is a measure of the ability to perform a task; efficiency is a measure of the success achieved in the performance of a task |
| Antonyms: | inability, inadequacy, incapability, incompetence, inefficience, ineptness |
| Main Entry: | efficacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | efficiency; productiveness |
| Synonyms: | ability, adequacy, capability, capableness, capacity, competence, effect, effectiveness, efficaciousness, energy, force, influence, performance, potency, power, strength, success, sufficiency, use, vigor, virtue, weight |
| Notes: | if something is efficacious, it is able to produce the desired result; efficacy means the power to produce effects |
| Antonyms: | failure, inefficacy, inefficiency, unproductiveness, uselessness, weakness |
| Main Entry: | efficiency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adeptness, effectiveness |
| Synonyms: | ability, abundance, adaptability, address, adequacy, capability, capableness, competence, competency, completeness, economy, effectualness, efficacy, energy, expertise, facility, faculty, know-how, performance, potency, power, powerfulness, productiveness, productivity, proficiency, prowess, quantity, readiness, resourcefulness, response, skill, skillfulness, suitability, suitableness, talent, thoroughness |
| Notes: | competence is a measure of the ability to perform a task; efficiency is a measure of the success achieved in the performance of a task |
| Antonyms: | helplessness, impotence, inability, incompetence, ineffectiveness, inefficiency, weakness |
| Main Entry: | enough |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plenty |
| Synonyms: | abundance, adequacy, ample supply, ampleness, competence, plenitude, right amount, sufficiency, sufficient |
| Antonyms: | inadequacy, insufficiency |
| Main Entry: | fitness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriateness |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, accordance, adaptation, adequacy, admissibility, agreeableness, applicability, appositeness, aptitude, aptness, assimilation, auspiciousness, compatibility, competence, concurrency, congeniality, congruousness, consistency, consonance, convenience, correspondence, decency, decorum, eligibility, expediency, harmony, keeping, order, patness, pertinence, preparedness, propriety, qualification, readiness, relevancy, rightness, seasonableness, seemliness, suitability, timeliness |
| Antonyms: | inappropriateness, unsuitability |
| Main Entry: | might |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability, power |
| Synonyms: | adequacy, arm, authority, capability, capacity, clout, command, competence, control, domination, efficacy, efficiency, energy, force, forcefulness, forcibleness, get-up-and-go, jurisdiction, lustiness, mastery, moxie*, muscle*, peppiness, potency, powerfulness, prowess, puissance, punch, qualification, qualifiedness, sinew, steam, strength, strenuousness, strong arm, sway, valor, vigor, vigorousness |
| Notes: | may is more optimistic than might; may carries the idea of permission while might suggests likelihood |
| Antonyms: | inability, powerlessness, weakness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | qualification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability, aptitude |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, adequacy, attainment, attribute, capability, capacity, competence, eligibility, endowment, experience, fitness, goods, makings, might, qualifiedness, quality, skill, stuff, suitability, suitableness, what it takes |
| Antonyms: | disqualification, inability, inaptitude, lack |
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