capacity

1. 1.

   capability to perform or produce

   “among his gifts is his capacity for true altruism”

   “limited runway capacity”

   “a great capacity for growth”

   Antonymsincapacity

   Broadercapability
2. 2.

   the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment

   “the capability of a metal to be fused”

   Synonymscapability

   Broadersusceptibility

   Narrowerresistanceactivity
3. 3.

   the amount that can be contained

   “the gas tank has a capacity of 12 gallons”

   Synonymscontent

   Broadervolume

   Narrowervital capacity
4. 4.

   the maximum production possible

   “the plant is working at 80 per cent capacity”

   Broaderproduction
5. 5.

   a specified function

   “he was employed in the capacity of director”

   “he should be retained in his present capacity at a higher salary”

   Broaderfunction
6. 6.

   (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive

   “the capacity of a hard disk drive is usually expressed in megabytes”

   Broaderindefinite quantity

   Narrowerformatted capacityunformatted capacity

   computer science

7. 7.

   an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored

   Synonymscapacitanceelectrical capacity

   Broaderelectrical phenomenon
8. 8.

   the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior

   Synonymsmental ability

   Antonymsincapacity

   Broaderability

   Narrowerprescience
9. 9.

   tolerance for alcohol

   “he had drunk beyond his capacity”

   Broadertolerance

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.