Negative capability

Negative capability - Ability to perceive and recognize truths beyond the reach. Article "Negative capability" in English Wikipedia has 48.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 36 references and 14 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Since the creation of article "Negative capability", its content was written by 120 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 187 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 67 times in English Wikipedia and cited 100 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #11773 in May 2003
• Global: #5554 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #27385 in May 2010
• Global: #48948 in May 2010

There are 8 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Negative capability		48.3088
2	Catalan (ca) Capacitat negativa		35.0315
3	German (de) Negative Capability		31.3977
4	Arabic (ar) قدرة سلبية		29.0658
5	Japanese (ja) ネガティブ・ケイパビリティ		16.7265
6	French (fr) Capacité négative		3.6085
7	Korean (ko) 부정적 능력		1.3681
8	Persian (fa) توانایی منفی		1.2851

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Negative capability" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Negative capability		1 577 938
2	Japanese (ja) ネガティブ・ケイパビリティ		274 294
3	German (de) Negative Capability		28 703
4	Arabic (ar) قدرة سلبية		8 297
5	Korean (ko) 부정적 능력		7 684
6	French (fr) Capacité négative		4 697
7	Persian (fa) توانایی منفی		1 500
8	Catalan (ca) Capacitat negativa		569

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Negative capability" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Negative capability		5 966
2	Japanese (ja) ネガティブ・ケイパビリティ		3 613
3	German (de) Negative Capability		98
4	French (fr) Capacité négative		72
5	Korean (ko) 부정적 능력		29
6	Arabic (ar) قدرة سلبية		26
7	Catalan (ca) Capacitat negativa		15
8	Persian (fa) توانایی منفی		5

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Negative capability" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Negative capability		120
2	German (de) Negative Capability		37
3	Japanese (ja) ネガティブ・ケイパビリティ		8
4	Korean (ko) 부정적 능력		8
5	Arabic (ar) قدرة سلبية		4
6	Catalan (ca) Capacitat negativa		4
7	French (fr) Capacité négative		4
8	Persian (fa) توانایی منفی		2

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Negative capability" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) ネガティブ・ケイパビリティ		1
2	Arabic (ar) قدرة سلبية		0
3	Catalan (ca) Capacitat negativa		0
4	German (de) Negative Capability		0
5	English (en) Negative capability		0
6	Persian (fa) توانایی منفی		0
7	French (fr) Capacité négative		0
8	Korean (ko) 부정적 능력		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Negative capability" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Negative capability		67
2	Arabic (ar) قدرة سلبية		8
3	Persian (fa) توانایی منفی		7
4	Japanese (ja) ネガティブ・ケイパビリティ		6
5	Korean (ko) 부정적 능력		5
6	German (de) Negative Capability		3
7	Catalan (ca) Capacitat negativa		2
8	French (fr) Capacité négative		2

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قدرة سلبية
ca	Catalan Capacitat negativa
de	German Negative Capability
en	English Negative capability
fa	Persian توانایی منفی
fr	French Capacité négative
ja	Japanese ネガティブ・ケイパビリティ
ko	Korean 부정적 능력

Best Rank

English: #27385 05.2010

Global: #48948 05.2010

Best Rank

English: #11773 05.2003

Global: #5554 05.2003

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