mental capacity

Questions about mental capacity

What is another word for mental capacity?

It depends which mental capacity you mean. In the sense “mental ability”, the synonyms are brain, brainpower, learning ability, mentality, wit. Across all 1 sense there are 5 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of mental capacity?

WordNet records no antonym for mental capacity. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for mental capacity come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of mental capacity

• Full entry for mental capacityAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for mental capacityWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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