adaptability

From adaptable +‎ -ity.

• IPA^(key): /ədæptəˈbɪlɪti/

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adaptability (countable and uncountable, plural adaptabilities)

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

   Synonym: adaptableness

   Coordinate terms: adaptiveness, adaptivity

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.

• “adaptability”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.