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Capacity vs Capaciousness - What's the difference?

capacity | capaciousness |

As nouns the difference between capacity and capaciousness

is that capacity is the ability to hold, receive or absorb while capaciousness is the quality of being capacious.

As an adjective capacity

is filling the allotted space.

capacity

English

Noun

(capacities)
  • The ability to hold, receive or absorb
  • A measure of such ability; volume
  • The maximum amount that can be held
    • It was hauling a capacity load.
    The orchestra played to a capacity crowd.
  • Capability; the ability to perform some task
  • The maximum that can be produced.
  • Mental ability; the power to learn
  • A faculty; the potential for growth and development
  • A role; the position in which one functions
  • Legal authority (to make an arrest for example)
  • Electrical capacitance.
  • (operations) The maximum that can be produced on a machine or in a facility or group.
    • Its capacity''' rating was 150 tons per hour, but its actual maximum '''capacity was 200 tons per hour.

    Synonyms

    * throughput * See also

    Derived terms

    * capacitance * capacitation * capacitor

    Adjective

  • Filling the allotted space.
    • There will be a capacity crowd at Busch stadium for the sixth game.
  • * 2012 , August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal
    • At an overcast Eton Dorney, roared on by a capacity crowd including Prince Harry and Prince William, the volume rose as they entered the final stages.

    Related terms

    * capacious

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    capaciousness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being capacious.
  • * 1818 George Crabb - English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order
    • Capacity is the abstract of capax, receiving or apt to hold ; it is therefore applied to the contents of hollow bodies : capaciousness' is the abstract of capacious and is therefore applied to the plane surface comprehended within a given space. hence we speak of the ''capacity'' of a vessel; and the '''''capaciousness of a room.