ADAPTABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adaptability mean? 

• ADAPTABILITY (noun)
  The noun ADAPTABILITY has 1 sense:

1. the ability to change (or be changed) to fit changed circumstances

  Familiarity information: ADAPTABILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADAPTABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ability to change (or be changed) to fit changed circumstances

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("adaptability" is a kind of...):

ability (the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adaptability"):

flexibility; flexibleness (the quality of being adaptable or variable)

pliability; pliancy; pliantness; suppleness (adaptability of mind or character)

Antonym:

unadaptability (the inability to change or be changed to fit changed circumstances)

Derivation:

adaptable (capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use)

 Context examples 

The termination of the cell's ability to carry out vital functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, responsiveness, and adaptability.

(Cell Death Process, NCI Thesaurus)

Diabetes, however, reduces the heart muscle's metabolic adaptability and causes heart cells to overuse fat as a metabolic fuel.

(Excess Fat Disrupts Heart Cell's Energy System, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing conditions, the lack of which would have meant swift and terrible death.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Exercise Physiology is the identification of physiological mechanisms underlying physical activity, the comprehensive delivery of treatment services concerned with the analysis, improvement, and maintenance of health and fitness, rehabilitation of heart disease and other chronic diseases and/or disabilities, and the professional guidance and counsel of athletes and others interested in athletics, sports training, and human adaptability to acute and chronic exercise.

(Exercise Physiology, NCI Thesaurus)