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Synonyms for ABILITY
əˈbɪl ɪ tiabil·i·ty

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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 3 votes

  1. ability

    Power is the most general term of this group, including every quality, property, or faculty by which any change, effect, or result is, or may be, produced; as, the power of the legislature to enact laws, or of the executive to enforce them; the power of an acid to corrode a metal; the power of a polished surface to reflect light. Ability is nearly coextensive with power, but does not reach the positiveness and vigor that may be included in the meaning of power, ability often implying latent, as distinguished from active power; we speak of an exertion of power, but not of an exertion of ability. Power and ability include capacity, which is power to receive; but ability is often distinguished from capacity, as power that may be manifested in doing, as capacity is in receiving; one may have great capacity for acquiring knowledge, and yet not possess ability to teach. Efficiency is active power to effect a definite result, the power that actually does, as distinguished from that which may do. Competency is equal to the occasion, readiness prompt for the occasion. Faculty is an inherent quality of mind or body; talent, some special mental ability. Dexterity and skill are readiness and facility in action, having a special end; talent is innate, dexterity and skill are largely acquired. Our abilities include our natural capacity, faculties, and talents, with all the dexterity, skill, and readiness that can be acquired. Efficacy is the power to produce an intended effect as shown in the production of it; as, the efficacy of a drug. Efficiency is effectual agency, competent power; efficiency is applied in mechanics as denoting the ratio of the effect produced to the power expended in producing it; but this word is chiefly used of intelligent agents as denoting the quality that brings all one's power to bear promptly and to the best purpose on the thing to be done. Compare ADDRESS; DEXTERITY; SKILFUL.

    Synonyms:
    aptitude, capability, capacity, cleverness, cogency, competency, dexterity, efficacy, efficiency, energy, expertness, faculty, force, might, power, qualification, readiness, skill, strength, susceptibility, talent

    Antonyms:
    awkwardness, dulness, feebleness, helplessness, imbecility, impotence, inability, inaptitude, incapacity, incompetence, inefficiency, maladroitness, stupidity, unskilfulness, weakness

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms1.0 / 1 vote

  1. ability

    Synonyms:
    power, cleverness, faculty, skill, capacity, talent, expertness, aptitude, dexterity, efficiency, competency, qualification

    Antonyms:
    weakness, incapacity, imbecility, inability, unreadiness, maladroitness

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. abilitynoun

    the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment

    Synonyms:
    power

    Antonyms:
    inability, unfitness

  2. ability, powernoun

    possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done

    "danger heightened his powers of discrimination"

    Synonyms:
    power, ability, exponent, index, major power, great power, might, tycoon, force, magnate, top executive, world power, business leader, powerfulness, mightiness, baron, big businessman, superpower, mogul, office, king

    Antonyms:
    inability, unfitness

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Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

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Dictionary of English Synonymes4.0 / 1 vote

  1. abilitynoun

    Synonyms:
    power (to execute any thing), ableness, force, potency, might, efficiency, efficacy, strength, energy, skill, skilfulness, dexterity, address, cleverness, ingenuity, talent, aptitude, aptness, knack, expertness, facility, quickness, readiness

  2. abilitynoun

    Synonyms:
    qualification, competency, sufficiency

  3. abilitynoun

    Synonyms:
    CAPACITY, capability, capableness, faculty, gift, parts, genius, endowment, calibre, forte, turn

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words4.0 / 1 vote

  1. abilitynoun

    Synonyms:
    competence, efficiency, aptitude, capacity, skill, proficiency, capability

    Antonyms:
    inability, incapability

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How to use ABILITY in a sentence?

  1. Andreas Simic:

    Every one of us has the ability to dream, fewer can turn dreams into reality Andreas Simic

  2. Melissa Melewsky:

    When you chip away at protections for the press, you diminish their ability to do their constitutionally protected job.

  3. Penn State Jones:

    Traditionally, we're focused much more on academic achievement and more and more we're realizing through many studies that academic achievement is only one part of making somebody successful, if we're sticking with the schools analogy, it takes the discipline, it takes the motivation, the attitude, the ability to work with others and work with adults to be able to succeed in schools and attain degrees.

  4. Mehmat Murat ildan:

    For a flexible person, it is impossible not to reach his destination, because by using his ability to be flexible he can easily define a nearer new destination.

  5. Eric Schiffer:

    Musk's meltdown will change Tesla's ability to raise capital when he needs it with a sector of investors, at this critical point, he needs to reinforce confidence, not raise a narrative of him as unstable and whose rational side is lost in space.


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