enabling Definition

enable
verb enabled, enabling

1. To make someone able; to give them the necessary means, power or authority (to do something).

Thesaurus: allow, permit, authorize, license, commission, sanction, accredit, qualify, empower, capacitate, prepare; Antonym: inhibit, prevent.
2. To make something possible.

Thesaurus: allow, permit, authorize, license, sanction, facilitate.

Derivative: enabler
noun

Etymology: 15c.