WordNet
n. mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense" [syn: brain, brainpower, learning ability, mentality, wit]
Usage examples of "mental capacity".
For at present we are speaking of the vices of the nature, which has a mental capacity for that enlightenment which discriminates between what is just and what is unjust.
Pierre listened to him, straining each faculty to understand the essential points of the impending battle, but was mortified to feel that his mental capacity was inadequate for the task.
With a minimum of attention concentrated on the robot, Lozan strove to increase the percentage of his potential mental capacity available to him.
No, as I said, mutations rarely breed on, and no mutation has yet produced a superman with any more mental capacity than you or I possess.
In fact, the awesome structure that loomed in the wall defied her sense of vision, or perhaps defied her mental capacity to grasp and analyze what her eyes revealed.
Enhanced feelings of well-being also contribute to sharper mental capacity.
After all the young native subjects, when they came to Zeyk he looked to Sax like a specimen of Homo habilis, whisked out of prehistory to be tested for mental capacity.
But whether that constitutes adequate mental capacity to require that the guardianship be withdrawn, and her affairs returned to her sole control, remains in doubt—.
It never occurred to him that this problem, or, indeed, that any problem, was beyond the mental capacity of Professor Van Dusen.
It seemed a small eternity ago that the Prince's drug had robbed him of every mental capacity he held dear.
In eras when no rejuv was possible, or in places such as Gehenna, where no rejuv is available, there are sociological accommodations to having a large portion of the population undergoing this slow diminution of physical and in a few cases mental capacity.