capacity

Other forms of capacity

plural

capacities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about capacity

What does capacity mean?

capacity means "capability to perform or produce". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in capacity?

capacity has 4 syllables: ca-pac-i-ty. The stress falls on "pac". In IPA it is /kəˈpæsəti/.

What is another word for capacity?

Close synonyms include capability, content, capacitance, electrical capacity, mental ability. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of capacity?

The recorded antonyms are incapacity, incapacity.

Is capacity a common word?

capacity is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with capacity?

2 words rhyme with capacity. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.