capacity
B1CEFR level
15/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
The mental ability to understand information, weigh it up and communicate a decision about one's own treatment.
We first assess whether the patient has the capacity to consent to this operation.
Law noun
The legal ability of a party to enter into a binding contract, which may be limited by age or mental incapacity.
We advised that the minor lacked capacity, so the guarantee was voidable at his option.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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