English > power: 10 senses > noun 1, attribute| Meaning | possession of controlling influence. |
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| Examples | - "the deterrent power of nuclear weapons"
- "the power of his love saved her"
- "his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade"
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| Synonym | powerfulness |
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| Attributes | powerful | Having great power or force or potency or effect |
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| powerless | lacking power |
| Narrower | control | Power to direct or determine |
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| disposal | The power to use something or someone |
| effectiveness, effectivity, effectualness, effectuality | Power to be effective |
| free will, discretion | The power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies |
| influence | A power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc |
| interest, interestingness | The power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.) |
| irresistibility, irresistibleness | The quality of being overpowering and impossible to resist |
| legal power, jurisdiction | (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law |
| persuasiveness, strength | The power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument / argument or entreaty |
| potency, effectiveness, strength | Capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects |
| preponderance | superiority in power or influence |
| puissance | Power to influence or coerce |
| repellent, repellant | The power to repel / repel |
| stranglehold, chokehold, throttlehold | complete power over a person or situation |
| sway | Controlling influence |
| valence, valency | (chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals |
| valence, valency | (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate |
| veto | The power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature) |
| Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
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| Opposite | powerlessness, impotence, impotency | The quality of lacking strength or power |
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| Catalan | poder, potència |
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| Spanish | poder, potencia |
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English > power: 10 senses > noun 3, cognition| Meaning | possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done. |
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| Example | "danger heightened his powers of discrimination" |
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| Synonym | ability |
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| Attributes | able | (usually followed by 'to') having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something |
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| Narrower | aptitude | inherent ability |
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| bilingualism | The ability to speak two languages colloquially |
| capacity, mental ability | The power to learn or retain knowledge |
| creativity, creativeness, creative thinking | The ability to create |
| faculty, mental faculty, module | One of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind |
| hand | ability |
| intelligence | The ability to comprehend |
| know-how | The (technical) knowledge and skill required to do something |
| leadership | The ability to lead |
| originality | The ability to think and act independently |
| skill, science | ability to produce solutions in some problem domain |
| skill, accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, attainment | An ability that has been acquired by training |
| superior skill | More than ordinary ability |
| Broader | cognition, knowledge, noesis | The psychological result of perception / perception and learning and reasoning |
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| Opposite | inability | lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something |
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| Catalan | capacitat, enginy, poder |
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| Spanish | capacidad, ingenio, poder |
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