CAPACITIES Synonyms: 118 Similar and Opposite Words

capacities

noun

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plural of capacity

as in volumes

the largest number or amount that something can hold the seating capacity of the school auditorium is 800 people

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as in positions

an assignment at which one regularly works for pay served in the capacity of the network's White House correspondent for a year

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as in roles

the action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing exists offered advice in his capacity as a lawyer

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as in abilities

the physical or mental power to do something not everyone has the capacity for learning higher math

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Recent Examples of capacities Assign each cup and spoon its own hook, and label the capacities clearly for quick, easy access. —

Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Apr. 2026 Kodak leaned into the analog and authenticity trend, investing its resources in its film capacities and creating products that consumers, directors and filmmakers alike were interested in. —

Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 11 Apr. 2026 Security experts are worried about what might lie ahead if such capacities proliferate without guardrails. —

Huo Jingnan, NPR, 11 Apr. 2026 The agencies’ commissioners and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton are also included in their official capacities. —

Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Apr. 2026 The complex is composed of an astonishing seven different intimate performance spaces of varied seating capacities and technical capabilities (most seat between 40 and 100 people), not to mention a similar number of bars and upscale dining spaces. —

Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026 All three come with at least 256GB of storage; higher capacities cost more. —

Iyaz Akhtar, PC Magazine, 7 Apr. 2026 The phrase was originally associated with Sutskever, who used it to caution his colleagues about the risks of artificial general intelligence—the threshold at which machines match human cognitive capacities. —

Ronan Farrow, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026 The lawsuit sues multiple parties, including the City of Memphis, Walmart, Walmart employees, and two Memphis police officers in their individual and official capacities. —

Lucas Finton, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 30 Mar. 2026

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All Lufthansa Cargo flights set to arrive in Frankfurt on Monday operated as scheduled, although the division warned that only limited cargo volumes may be available for shipments.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 14 Apr. 2026
The motion instead focused on the large volumes of discovery material to be examined ahead of the trial.

— David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2026