adaptability

adaptability

English

Etymology

From adaptable +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ədæptəˈbɪlɪti/

Noun

adaptability (countable and uncountable, plural adaptabilities)

1. The quality of being adaptable; a quality that renders adaptable.

   Synonym: adaptableness

2. (biology) Variability in respect to, or under the influence of, external conditions; susceptibility of an organism to that variation whereby it becomes suited to or fitted for its conditions of environment; the capacity of an organism to be modified by circumstances.

Related terms

• adapt
• adaptable
• adaptableness
• adaptably
• adaptation
• adaptational
• adaptative
• adaptatively
• adaptativeness
• adaptedness
• adapter
• adaption
• adaptional
• adaptitude
• adaptive
• adaptively
• adaptiveness
• adaptly
• adaptness
• adaptorial

 

Translations

quality of being adaptable; a quality that renders adaptable

Asturian: adautabilidá f Bulgarian: приспособимост (bg) (prisposobimost) Catalan: adaptabilitat f Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: přizpůsobivost f Finnish: sopeutuvuus (fi), sopeutumiskyky French: adaptabilité (fr) Galician: adaptabilidade (gl) f German: Anpassungsfähigkeit (de) f Italian: adattabilità f Manx: so-lhoobaght f Nepali: अनुकूलनशीलता (anukūlanśīlatā) Polish: adaptowalność f Portuguese: adaptabilidade (pt) f, flexibilidade (pt) f Romanian: adaptabilitate (ro) f Russian: адапти́вность (ru) f (adaptívnostʹ), приспособля́емость (ru) f (prisposobljájemostʹ) Spanish: adaptabilidad (es) f, flexibilidad (es) f

variability in respect to, or under the influence of, external conditions

Bulgarian: изменчивост (bg) (izmenčivost) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: sopeutuvuus (fi) Polish: adaptabilność (pl) f, przystosowawczość‎ f Romanian: adaptabilitate (ro) f Russian: адапти́вность (ru) f (adaptívnostʹ), приспособля́емость (ru) f (prisposobljájemostʹ)

References

• adaptability in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911