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expertness
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expertness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability |
| Synonyms: | adeptness, adroitness, art, craft, expertise, facility, gift, knack, know-how, mastery, proficiency, savvy, skill, skillfulness, specialization |
| Main Entry: | ability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | natural or acquired power in a |
| Synonyms: | adroitness, bent, capability, cleverness, command, craft, deftness, expertise, expertness, finesse, flair, genius, gift, handiness, ingenuity, knack, know-how, mastery, mind for, particular activity adeptness, proficiency, savvy, skill, skillfulness, strength, talent, the goods, the right stuff, 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 |
| Antonyms: | clumsiness, ignorance, inability, inadequacy, inanity, incompetence, stupidity, weakness |
| Main Entry: | command |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rule, power |
| Synonyms: | ability, absolutism, aplomb, authority, authorization, charge, coercion, compulsion, constraint, control, despotism, domination, dominion, expertise, expertism, expertness, government, grasp, grip, hold, jurisdiction, know-how, leadership, management, might, prerogative, primacy, restraint, right, royalty, skill, sovereignty, strings, supervision, supremacy, sway, tyranny, upper hand |
| Notes: | an order is being told to do something with no specific guidelines, a command is being told to do something in a specific way, and a directive is being told to do something and getting this information through channels |
| Antonyms: | subordination |
| 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: | 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 |
| Main Entry: | facility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ease; ability |
| Synonyms: | address, adroitness, aptitude, bent, child's play, competence, dexterity, efficiency, effortlessness, expertness, fluency, knack, leaning, lightness, poise, proficiency, propensity, quickness, readiness, skill, skillfulness, smooth sailing, smoothness, spontaneity, tact, turn, wit |
| Notes: | a facility is a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry or a skillful performance or ability without difficulty; faculty is one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind or the body of teachers and administrators at a school |
| Antonyms: | difficulty, hardness |
| Main Entry: | knack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability, talent |
| Synonyms: | adroitness, aptitude, aptness, bent, capacity, command, dexterity, expertise, expertism, expertness, facility, faculty, flair, forte, genius, gift, handiness, hang of it, head*, ingenuity, know-how, mastership, nose*, propensity, quickness, readiness, savvy*, set, skill, skillfulness, trick, turn |
| Antonyms: | inability, ineptitude, lack, want |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | know-how |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skill, talent |
| Synonyms: | ability, adroitness, aptitude, art, background, capability, command, craft, cunning, dexterity, experience, expertise, expertness, faculty, flair, ingenuity, knack, knowledge, proficiency, savoir-faire, wisdom |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, lack, want |
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