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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | potential for development |
| Synonyms: | ability, aptitude, capability, capacity, potential, power, the makings, what it takes, wherewithal |
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| Main Entry: | capability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to perform |
| Synonyms: | adequacy, aptitude, art, capacity, competence, craft, cunning, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, facility, faculty, means, might, potency, potential, potentiality, power, proficiency, qualification, qualifiedness, skill, wherewithal |
| Notes: | 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, ineptness |
| Main Entry: | possibilities |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | potential |
| Synonyms: | capabilities, potentiality, promise, prospects, talent |
| Antonyms: | impossible |
| Main Entry: | possibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feasibility, likelihood; chance |
| Synonyms: | achievability, action, attainableness, break, circumstance, contingency, fair shake, fifty-fifty, fling*, fluke, fortuity, happening, hazard, hope, incident, instance, liability, likeliness, occasion, occurrence, odds, opportunity, outside chance, plausibility, play*, potentiality, practicability, prayer*, probability, prospect, risk*, shot*, stab*, toss-up, workableness |
| Antonyms: | impossibility, impossible, unfeasibility, unlikelihood |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | potential |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | possibility for achievement |
| Synonyms: | ability, aptitude, capability, capacity, potentiality, power, the makings, what it takes, wherewithal |
| Antonyms: | impossible, lack |
| Main Entry: | power |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability, competence |
| Synonyms: | aptitude, bent, capability, capacity, competency, dynamism, effectiveness, efficacy, endowment, faculty, function, gift, influence, potential, potentiality, qualification, skill, talent, turn, virtue |
| Antonyms: | inability, incapacity, incompetence, weakness |
| Main Entry: | predisposition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | willingness, inclination |
| Synonyms: | bent*, bias, choice, cup of tea, dish*, disposition, druthers, flash, groove, leaning, likelihood, liking, option, partiality, penchant, potentiality, predilection, preference, proclivity, proneness, propensity, susceptibility, tendency, thing*, type, weakness |
| Antonyms: | disinclination, unwillingness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | presence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occupancy, attendance |
| Synonyms: | being, companionship, company, existence, habitation, inhabitance, latency, occupation, omnipresence, potentiality, residence, subsistence, ubiety, ubiquity, whereabouts |
| Antonyms: | absence |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | possibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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accessible, achievable, apt to, at the mercy of, attainable, compatible, compossible, conceivable, contingent, credible, dependent on, exposed to, feasible, in danger, in posse, incident to, incidental, liable, magari, obnoxious to, obtainable, on the cards, on the dice, open to, peradventure, performable, possible, practicable, subject, superable, surmountable, tessarian, unexempt from, within range of, within reach, within the bounds of possibility
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