adaptabilities

A psychology professor of mine gave a lecture about the differing adaptabilities of the sexes.

What Are Little Girls Made Of | ATTACKERMAN 2008

Various adaptabilities, physical traits, and developmental achievements gave some human species evolutionary advantages over others.

Take Your Hominids with a Grain of Salt 2005

She had been bored all the afternoon by Percy Gryce—the mere thought seemed to waken an echo of his droning voice—but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptabilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

She had been bored all the afternoon by Percy Gryce—the mere thought seemed to waken an echo of his droning voice—but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptabilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

She had been bored all the afternoon by Percy Gryce—the mere thought seemed to waken an echo of his droning voice—but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptabilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

We may be rivals in many material paths, but our rivalry should be generous and open, ever aiming toward the attainment of larger results and the mutually beneficial advancement of each in the line of its especial adaptabilities.

State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

Every pupil is unique: he is the inheritor of a spirit which is peculiarly his own, and of a body in its endowments and proportions unlike that of anyone else, and in his nervous system he possesses special pre-dispositions and "potentially linked paths" which provide him with particular adaptabilities and traits.

Spirit and Music H. Ernest Hunt

So also in the adaptabilities and the conveniences of life, in its versatilities and in its enjoyments.

The Life and Letters of Walter H Page Hendrick, Burton J 1922

She had been bored all the afternoon by Percy Gryce -- the mere thought seemed to waken an echo of his droning voice -- but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptabilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.

House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1899

With her quick perceptions and adaptabilities she would soon learn to care more about the quality of the reflecting surface; and meanwhile no criticism of his should mar her pleasure.

The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1899