enabling

1. 1.

   providing legal power or sanction

   “an enabling resolution”

   “enabling power”

   Antonymsdisabling

   Similarfacultativesanctionative

Questions about enabling

What does enabling mean?

enabling means "providing legal power or sanction".

How many syllables are in enabling?

enabling has 4 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /ɛˈneɪbəlɪŋ/.

What is the opposite of enabling?

The recorded antonyms are disabling.

Is enabling a common word?

enabling is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.