cleverness

Main Entry:
cleverness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: brightness, ingenuity
Synonyms: ability, adroitness, astuteness, brains, calculation, canniness, dexterity, discernment, flair, gift, gumption, intelligence, quick wit, quickness, resourcefulness, sagacity, sense, sharpness, shrewdness, skill, smartness, talent, wisdom, wit
Antonyms: foolishness, ignorance, naievety, senselessness, stupidity
Main Entry: acumen
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ability to understand and reason
Synonyms: acuity, acuteness, astuteness, awareness, brains, brilliance, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination, farsightedness, good taste, grasp, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, keenness, perception, percipience, perspicacity, perspicuity, refinement, sagacity, sensitivity, sharpness, shrewdness, smartness, smarts, understanding, vision, wisdom, wit
Notes: acumen suggests that keenness relates to a person's mind, whereas acuity suggests that it relates to a person's performance; acumen is something that a person has, whereas acuity is something that a person displays
Antonyms: denseness, ignorance, inability, ineptness, obtuseness, stupidity
Main Entry: agility
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: physical or mental nimbleness, deftness
Synonyms: activity, acuteness, adroitness, alacrity, alertness, briskness, celerity, cleverness, dexterity, dispatch, expedition, fleetness, friskiness, litheness, liveliness, promptitude, promptness, quickness, quickwittedness, sharpness, sprightliness, spryness, suppleness, swiftness
Antonyms: clumsiness, stiffness
Main Entry: aptitude
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: quickness at learning
Synonyms: ability, capability, capacity, cleverness, competence, faculty, flair, gift, giftedness, intelligence, knack, proficiency, savvy, smarts, stuff*, talent, what it takes
Notes: aptitude and attitude derive from Latin aptitudo 'fitness,' the first through French, the second through a French borrowing of Italian attitudine
Antonyms: incapacity, stupidity
Main Entry: capacity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ability; competency
Synonyms: adequacy, aptitude, aptness, bent, brains, caliber, capability, cleverness, compass, competence, efficiency, facility, faculty, forte, genius, gift, inclination, intelligence, knack, might, power, qualification, readiness, skill, stature, strength, talent, the goods, up to it, what it takes
Notes: applied to a person, ability and capacity mean about the same thing but are grammatically different: an ability to do something, a capacity for doing something; ability is qualitative while capacity is quantitative
capacity refers to a general ability to comprehend an issue or perform a task; capability implies a reference to one of a set of such abilities
Antonyms: impotence, inability, incompetence
Main Entry: craft
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: expertise, skill
Synonyms: ability, adeptness, adroitness, aptitude, art, artistry, cleverness, competence, cunning, dexterity, expertness, ingenuity, knack, know-how, proficiency, technique
Main Entry: creativity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: artistry
Synonyms: cleverness, genius, imagination, imaginativeness, ingenuity, inspiration, inventiveness, originality, resourcefulness, talent, vision
Main Entry: dexterity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: aptitude, ability
Synonyms: address, adroitness, aptness, art, artistry, cleverness, craft, cunning, deftness, effortlessness, expertise, expertness, facility, finesse, handiness, ingenuity, knack, know-how, mastery, neatness, nimbleness, proficiency, readiness, skill, skillfulness, smoothness, tact, touch
Antonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, inability, ineptness
Main Entry: ease
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: facility, freedom
Synonyms: adroitness, affability, aplomb, breeze, child's play, cinch, cleverness, composure, dexterity, dispatch, duck soup, easygoingness, efficiency, effortlessness, expertise, expertness, familiarity, flexibility, fluency, informality, insouciance, knack, liberty, naturalness, nonchalance, poise, pushover, quickness, readiness, relaxedness, setup, simplicity, skillfulness, smooth sailing, smoothness, snap, unaffectedness, unconstraint, unreservedness
Antonyms: difficulty, effort, inhibition, perplexity, restriction
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