| Main Entry: | potentiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | potential for development |
Synonyms: |
ability, aptitude, capability, capacity, potential, power, the makings, what it takes, wherewithal |
| Main Entry: | ability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power to act, perform |
Synonyms: |
aptitude, capability, capacity, competence, competency, comprehension, dexterity, endowment, facility, faculty, intelligence, might, potentiality, qualification, resourcefulness, skill, strength, talent, understanding |
| 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 |
Antonyms: |
impotence, inability, limitation, paralysis |
| 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 |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | possibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
subject, 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, superable, surmountable, tessarian, unexempt from, within range of, within reach, within the bounds of possibility
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