capabilities

Synonyms for capabilities

noun ability to perform

1580s, from capable + -ity. Capabilities "undeveloped faculty or property" is attested from 1778.

He sees at once the capabilities of a tale, but he will not use it except he may do with it what he pleases.

They are strangely suggestive of the capabilities of the art.

He was daily growing to have a higher opinion of her wisdom and capabilities.

He would have been the last to blame her for this; her estimate of his capabilities was like his own, that was all.

His capabilities may be small or great; if he but use them all, he is a success.

And it would be futile to speculate on the capabilities of that armament.

With a quickness that rarely deceived him, Dunn saw his capabilities.

Its capabilities it owes to its great length and great continuity.

They had other properties of mind, other capabilities that men did not have.

But he showed no intention of availing himself of these capabilities.