Synonyms and Antonyms of capacity
1
the largest number or amount that something can hold
- the seating capacity of the school auditorium is 800 people
2
an assignment at which one regularly works for pay
- served in the capacity of the network's White House correspondent for a year
business, employ, employment, occupation, profession
work
office, spot
calling, pursuit, trade, vocation
line, racket
engagement, gig
livelihood, living
career, lifework, practice (also practise)
duty, mission, posting, service, task
3
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
affair, concern, hand, involvement, participation
niche, office, post, situation
calling, occupation, pursuit, vocation
activity, assignment, charge, commission, duty, employ, mission, responsibility, service, use
4
the physical or mental power to do something
- not everyone has the capacity for learning higher math
aptitude, aptness, endowment, equipment, facility, gift, knack, talent
address, adroitness, deftness, dexterity, hand, prowess, skill
gray matter, instinct, intelligence, ken, reason, understanding
might, potency, puissance, staying power, stuff
adequacy, effectiveness, effectualness, fitness, form, influence, resourcefulness, usefulness
means, resources, wherewithal
helplessness, impotence, paralysis, powerlessness, weakness
defectiveness, deficiency, inadequacy, inadequateness, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, inefficaciousness, inefficacy, uselessness
debilitation, disablement, impairment, incapacitation
