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cumas — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • ability noun The capacity or power to do something.
  • capability noun The power, skill, or resources needed to do something.
  • potential noun An ability or quality that hasn't yet been developed or shown.
  • power noun The ability to do something, or to control and influence people or events.

Senses

cumas is used for these senses in English:

  • ability (uncountable) The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]
  • capability The power or ability to generate an outcome.
  • potential A currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to).
  • potential (grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.

ability — full definition

  1. noun The capacity or power to do something.
  2. noun A particular skill or talent.

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