adaptability

English

Noun

Wikipedia adaptability (uncountable)

1. The quality of being adaptable; a quality that renders adaptable.
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.
3. (management) readiness for change in a business environment

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

Bulgarian: приспособимост (bg) Czech: přizpůsobivost (cs) f. Finnish: sopeutuvuus (fi), sopeutumiskyky (fi) French: adaptabilité (fr)

Italian: adattabilità (it) f. Manx: so-lhoobaght (gv) f. Romanian: adaptabilitate (ro) f. Spanish: adaptabilidad (es) f., flexibilidad (es) f.

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

Bulgarian: изменчивост (bg)

Romanian: adaptabilitate (ro) f.

readiness for change

Danish: forandringsparathed (da) German: Anpassungsfähigkeit (de) f.

Greenlandic: allannguutaasinnaasunut piareersimaneq (kl)

References

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