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negative capability

Ability to perceive and recognize truths beyond the reach
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Negative capability is a concept in literary and philosophical discourse. It is an ability [1].

negative capability

Summary

negative capability is an ability[1]. It draws 115 Wikipedia views per month (ability category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • negative capability's instance of is recorded as ability[3].
  • negative capability's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01jd94[4].
  • negative capability's facet of is recorded as art[5].
  • negative capability's facet of is recorded as poetry[6].
  • negative capability's facet of is recorded as philosophy[7].
  • negative capability's facet of is recorded as literature[8].
  • negative capability's facet of is recorded as reasoning[9].
  • negative capability's partially coincident with is recorded as ambiguity tolerance–intolerance[10].
  • negative capability's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/negative-capability[11].
  • negative capability's Quora topic ID is recorded as Negative-Capability[12].
  • negative capability's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 143645167[13].

Why It Matters

negative capability draws 115 Wikipedia views per month (ability category, ranking #1 of 1).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

art philosophy poetry

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Encyclopædia Britannica. britannica.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_negative-capability_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{negative capability}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/negative-capability}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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