adaptability

English

Noun

adaptability (countable and uncountable; plural adaptabilities)

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.

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) (prisposobimost)
• 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) (izmenčivost)

• Romanian: adaptabilitate (ro) f

References

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