Capacity and Reason

Capacity

Capacity noun - The physical or mental power to do something.

Usage example: not everyone has the capacity for learning higher math

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Reason and capacity are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reason" instead a noun "Capacity".

Reason noun - A statement given to explain a belief or act.

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Capacity and reason are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Capacity" instead a noun "Reason".

good	good capacity	good reason
exact	exact capacity	exact reason
better	better capacity	better reason
similar	similar capacity	similar reason
Other adjectives: usual, actual, entire, real, large, huge, little, excellent, new, less, official, different.

It's the reason he was the most effective of the X models, and the only one still alive: None of the others had the capacity to care about living, so they had no sense of self-preservation.

Source: Personality Chip
Selflessness. The capacity to regard the interests of others as not fundamentally subordinated to one's own for any arbitrary reason.

Source: Analysis / Virtue/Vice Codification
The reason the Stone isn't common is simply that most people simply don't have the capacity or experience to reach this state, and even those who have likely wouldn't have the desire to use the thing anyway, what with being what essentially amounts to a mental Physical God and all.

Source: Philosopher's Stone

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