Quantity
Synonyms for capacity
Synonyms for capacity: content and capability. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for capacity
Interchangeable with capacity in this sense
Audited under capacity's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one capacity carries in that sense.
- contentnoun, in the sense "the amount that can be contained"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name capacity as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- capabilitycapability is a noun in the sense "the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under capacity and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
the amount that can be contained
The gas tank has a capacity of 12 gallons.
The true synonym
content
Same sentence, swapped: The gas tank has a content of 12 gallons.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- capability
- quality
- capital
Where capacity turns up in the game
capacity is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where capacity is the trap
- sciencenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is skill, in the sense "ability to produce solutions in some problem domain", and capacity is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play capacity
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so capacity reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other quantity words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. capacity carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.