adaptability

From adaptable +‎ -ity or adapt +‎ -ability.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ədæptəˈbɪlɪti/

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• (General American, Canada, General Australian) IPA^(key): /əˌdæptəˈbɪləti/, [əˌdæp.təˈbɪl.ə.ɾi]

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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

   • 2020 June 30, Spencer Wright, “My fraternity taught me the secret to surviving a pandemic”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     But the real test of my adaptability came senior year, when I became chapter president of DKA.

3. (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.
   • 2023 September 26, Hafsa Khalil, “Electric blue tarantula species discovered in Thailand”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Typically, tarantulas are either terrestrial or arboreal, but the Chilobrachys natanicharum can live in both enivronments^[sic], the researchers said, demonstrating its adaptability.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “adaptability”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.