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Capacitate vs Empowerment - What's the difference?

capacitate | empowerment |

As a verb capacitate

is to make capable.

As a noun empowerment is

the granting of political, social or economic power to an individual or group.

capacitate

English

Verb

(capacitat)
  • To make capable.
  • By this instruction we may be capacitated to observe those errors. — Dryden.
  • (zoology) To alter sperm to allow to fertilize eggs.
  • Derived terms

    * incapacitate * capacitation ----

    empowerment

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The granting of political, social or economic power to an individual or group.
  • The process of supporting another person or persons to discover and claim personal power.
  • The state of being empowered (either generally, or specifically).
  • (South Africa) Government programs encouraging advancement of blacks.
  • Derived terms

    * youth empowerment * (South Africa) black economic empowerment