adaptability

English

Etymology

From adaptable +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ədæptəˈbɪlɪti/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

adaptability (countable and uncountable, plural adaptabilities)

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

   Synonym: adaptableness

   Coordinate terms: adaptiveness, adaptivity

3. (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.

Derived terms

• maladaptability
• pathoadaptability
• unadaptability

 

Related terms

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

 

Translations

quality of being adaptable; a quality that renders adaptable

• Asturian: adautabilidá f
• Bulgarian: приспособи́мост (bg) f (prisposobímost), адапти́вност f (adaptívnost)
• Catalan: adaptabilitat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 適應性／适应性 (zh) (shìyìngxìng)

• Czech: přizpůsobivost f
• Finnish: sopeutuvuus (fi), sopeutumiskyky
• French: adaptabilité (fr)
• Galician: adaptabilidade (gl) f
• German: Anpassungsfähigkeit (de) f
• Hindi: अनुकूलन क्षमता (anukūlan kṣamtā)
• 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: изменчи́вост (bg) f (izmenčívost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可塑性 (zh) (kěsùxìng)

• Finnish: sopeutuvuus (fi)
• Polish: adaptabilność (pl) f, przystosowawczość (pl) 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, →OCLC.