capacity to act
Ability to do
Capacity to act is the ability to take meaningful action in a situation—having both the power and the opportunity to do something.
In legal contexts, it refers to the mental competence required to make binding decisions: The court questioned his capacity to act on his own behalf.
More broadly, it describes agency or effectiveness: The crisis revealed our limited capacity to act.
- capabilityPower to accomplish tasks
- competenceAdequate ability to function
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- moral agencyCapacity for right and wrong
- volitionCapacity for choice
empowerment · authority · seat at the table · execution · free will · responsibility · skin in the game · self-efficacy · jurisdiction · sovereignty · mandate · autonomy · motivation · decision-making power · reach · efficiency · eligibility · accountability
capacity to actincapacity
Lack of ability
helplessness · powerlessness · impotence · incapability · paralysis
capacity to actparalysis
Loss of muscle function
immobilization · constraint · incapacitation · imprisonment · restriction