capacities

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Capacities is the plural of capacity—the amount something can hold or produce, or an ability to do something.

A factory operates at full capacity.

A person's mental capacities may decline with age.

Someone acting in an official capacity performs a role or function: She spoke in her capacity as board chair.

abilities

talent

Inborn aptitude

expertise · proficiency · prowess · mastery · potential · faculties · strengths · powers · gifts · endowments

volume

liters

Fluid capacity units

pints · barrels · bushels · deciliters · hectoliters · teaspoons · tablespoons · acre-feet · hogsheads · pecks

potential

promise

Commitment to act

possibility · opportunity · aspiration · ambition · unrealized · dormant · latent · nascent · budding · emerging

storage

warehouse

Bulk goods storage building

silo · vault · memory · harddrive · pantry · repository · archive · bin · rack · locker

roles

positions

Locations or viewpoints held

offices · appointments · posts · stations · designations · titles · standings · authorities · jurisdictions · mandates

Categories
Opposites
ability/capability

capacitiesincapacities

Inabilities to perform

inabilities · incapabilities · disabilities · incompetencies · deficiencies

volume/extent

capacitiesminimums

Smallest permissible amounts

insufficiencies · lower limits · floors · emptiness · shortfalls

power/authority

capacitiesincapacities

Inabilities to perform

disqualifications · impotence · powerlessness · disenfranchisement

Family

capacity, capability, incapable, incapacity, capably, capabilities, overcapacity, capacitance, capacitate

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