quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare

potency, effectiveness, strength - capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects; "the toxin's potency"; "the strength of the drinks"

valence, valency - (chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent)

valence, valency - (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate

preponderance - superiority in power or influence; "the preponderance of good over evil"; "the preponderance of wealth and power"

puissance - power to influence or coerce; "the puissance of the labor vote"

persuasiveness, strength - the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty; "the strength of his argument settled the matter"

irresistibility, irresistibleness - the quality of being overpowering and impossible to resist

interestingness, interest - the power of attracting or holding one's interest (because it is unusual or exciting etc.); "they said nothing of great interest"; "primary colors can add interest to a room"

chokehold, stranglehold, throttlehold - complete power over a person or situation; "corporations have a strangelhold on the media"; "the president applied a chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public"

sway - controlling influence

influence - a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc; "used her parents' influence to get the job"

repellant, repellent - the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his advances"

control - power to direct or determine; "under control"

jurisdiction, legal power - (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law; "courts having jurisdiction in this district"

disposal - the power to use something or someone; "used all the resources at his disposal"

free will, discretion - the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies

veto - the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature)

reins - power to control; "the reins of government"

effectiveness, effectivity, effectuality, effectualness - power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect

natural philosophy, physical science, physics - the science of matter and energy and their interactions

physical phenomenon - a natural phenomenon involving the physics of matter and energy

electric power, electrical power, wattage - the product of voltage and current

waterpower - the power to do work that is latent in a head of water

cognition, knowledge, noesis - the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

know-how - the (technical) knowledge and skill required to do something

leadership - the ability to lead; "he believed that leadership can be taught"

intelligence - the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience

aptitude - inherent ability

mental ability, capacity - the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior

creative thinking, creativeness, creativity - the ability to create

originality - the ability to think and act independently

science, skill - ability to produce solutions in some problem domain; "the skill of a well-trained boxer"; "the sweet science of pugilism"

acquirement, skill, accomplishment, attainment, acquisition - an ability that has been acquired by training

hand - ability; "he wanted to try his hand at singing"

superior skill - more than ordinary ability

faculty, mental faculty, module - one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind

body politic, nation, res publica, commonwealth, country, state, land - a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"

state - the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"

governing, government activity, governance, government - the act of governing; exercising authority; "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of government"

executive clemency - the power (usually of a president or governor) to pardon or commute the sentence of someone convicted in that jurisdiction

war power - an extraordinary power exercised (usually by the executive branch) in the prosecution of a war and involving an extension of the powers that the government normally has in peacetime

causal agency, causal agent, cause - any entity that causes events to happen

juggernaut, steamroller - a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way

influence - one having power to influence another; "she was the most important influence in my life"; "he was a bad influence on the children"

Moloch - a tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice; "the great Moloch of war"; "duty has become the Moloch of modern life"- Norman Douglas

strength - the property of being physically or mentally strong; "fatigue sapped his strength"

degree - the highest power of a term or variable

mathematical notation - a notation used by mathematicians

logarithm, log - the exponent required to produce a given number

businessman, man of affairs - a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)

oil tycoon - a powerful person in the oil business

drive - cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling; "The amplifier drives the tube"; "steam drives the engines"; "this device drives the disks for the computer"

cater, ply, provide, supply - provide what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"