1.
capacity to embrace; magnanimity; broad-mindedness; tolerance
The ability to accept and embrace others with warmth, including their faults and differences. Often used to describe an admirable quality in people, especially in romantic contexts or leadership.
彼は包容力がある。
He has a generous, accepting nature.
包容力のある人が好きだ。
I like people who are warm and accepting.
リーダーには技術だけでなく、チームを受け止める包容力も必要だ。
A leader needs not just technical skill but also the magnanimity to embrace the team.
A compound of 包容 (embrace, encompass) and 力 (power, capacity). Commonly appears in surveys about desirable qualities in a partner, where 包容力 consistently ranks highly.
USAGE:
Often used in the pattern 包容力がある/ない to describe someone who does or doesn't have this quality. Particularly common in romantic contexts and personality descriptions.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 包容力がある人 — a person with generosity of spirit
- 包容力のある上司 — a tolerant boss
- 包容力に欠ける — to lack magnanimity
SIMILAR WORDS:
- 寛容 — tolerance, leniency (more about forgiving faults)
- 器が大きい — to be magnanimous (idiomatic, lit. "big vessel")
- 懐が深い — broad-minded (idiomatic, lit. "deep bosom")