Adaptive vs Adaptability - What's the difference?

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Adaptive is a related term of adaptability.

As an adjective adaptive

is of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.

As a noun adaptability is

the quality of being adaptable; a quality that renders adaptable.

adaptive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.

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, passage=The real affinities of all organic beings, in contradistinction to their adaptive resemblances, are due to inheritance or community of descent.}}

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, passage=That variation of germinal origin is a fact in organic nature is admitted on all hands, and that some variations are adaptive is also unquestioned.}}

Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.

(psychology) Of a trait: that helps an individual to function well in society.

Synonyms

* (capable of being adapted) adaptable * adaptative

Derived terms

(Derived terms) * adaptively * adaptiveness * adaptivity * adaptive beamformer * adaptive behaviour * adaptive bridge * adaptive clothing * adaptive coding * adaptive communications * adaptive compression * adaptive enzyme * adaptive equalization * adaptive expectations * adaptive filter * adaptive hypertrophy * adaptive management * adaptive modulation * adaptive optics * adaptive predictive coding * adaptive radiation * adaptive resonance * adaptive reuse * adaptive routing * adaptive switching * adaptive system * adaptive technology * adaptive value * adaptive zone

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adaptability

English

Noun

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

(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.