Definition of "capableness" [ca•pa•ble•ness]

• The state or quality of being capable. (noun)

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• "These youngsters miss a chance to see their power in action and to wear or use visible proof of their capableness."
• "There seemed, somehow, to be a look of content and capableness about those heads bent so busily over the stitching."
• "And then she stared hard at him, noting the steady, cold, alert eyes; the firm lips; the bigness of him, the atmosphere of capableness that seemed to surround him; the low-swung guns at his hips, with no flaps on the holster-tops, and the bottoms of the holsters tied to his leather chaps with rawhide thongs."