aptness - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | aptness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talent |
| Synonyms: | aptitude, capacity, expertise, faculty, flair, forte, genius, gift, instinct, knack, proficiency, smarts*, docility |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aptness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriateness |
| Synonyms: | appositeness, fitness, suitability, suitableness, felicitousness, fittingness |
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| Main Entry: | aptness |
| Part of Speech: | |
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Adjectives: |
particular, appropriate, bating, certain, characteristic, definite, deictically, determinate, diagnostic, endemic, esoteric, especial, exclusive, hypostatic, idiomatic, individual, original, partial, party, peculiar, perjink, perqueer, personal, pilpulistic, private, proper, respective, several, singular, special, specific, subservient, typical, yon, yonder
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| Main Entry: | dexterity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aptitude, ability |
| Synonyms: | address, adroitness, art, artistry, cleverness, craft, cunning, expertise, facility, finesse, ingenuity, knack, know-how, mastery, neatness, nimbleness, proficiency, readiness, skill, smoothness, tact, touch, aptness, deftness, effortlessness, expertness, handiness, skillfulness |
| Antonyms: | awkwardness, clumsiness, inability, ineptness |
| Main Entry: | expertise/expertness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge, proficiency |
| Synonyms: | ability, ableness, adroitness, aptness, art, cleverness, command, competence, craft, cunning, deftness, dexterity, dodge*, facility, finesse, goods*, ingeniousness, judgment, knack*, know-how*, line*, makings, oil*, one's thing, prowess, readiness, savvy, sharpness, skill, skillfulness, stuff* |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, inexpertness, lack |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talent, style |
| Synonyms: | ability, accomplishment, aptitude, bent, chic, dash, elegance, faculty, feel, genius, gift, glamour, head, knack, mastery, panache, pizzazz*, presence, shine*, splash*, taste, turn, zip*, aptness |
| Notes: | flair is a natural talent or distinctive and stylish elegance while a flare (noun) is a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate - flare (verb) means to burn brightly or to erupt or intensify suddenly |
| Antonyms: | inability, incapacity, ineptitude, ineptness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | genius |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gift of high intellect |
| Synonyms: | ability, accomplishment, acumen, acuteness, adept, aptitude, astuteness, bent, brain, capability, capacity, creativity, discernment, endowment, expert, faculty, flair, grasp, head, imagination, inclination, ingenuity, inspiration, intelligence, knack, mature, originality, perspicacity, power, prodigy, propensity, prowess, reach, sagacity, talent, turn, understanding, virtuoso, wisdom, Einstein, aptness, brilliance, inventiveness, percipience, precocity, superability |
| Antonyms: | idiot, imbecile |
| Main Entry: | knack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability, talent |
| Synonyms: | adroitness, aptitude, bent, capacity, command, dexterity, expertise, facility, faculty, flair, forte, genius, gift, head*, ingenuity, know-how, nose*, propensity, quickness, readiness, savvy*, set, skill, trick, turn, aptness, expertism, expertness, handiness, hang of it, mastership, skillfulness |
| Antonyms: | inability, ineptitude, lack, want |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | propensity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inclination, weakness |
| Synonyms: | ability, bent*, bias, capacity, competence, disposition, flash, leaning, liability, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, susceptibility, sweet tooth*, talent, tendency, thing*, tilt*, yen, aptness, inclining, proneness |
| Antonyms: | antipathy, disinclination, dislike, hate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | readiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skill; eagerness |
| Synonyms: | address, adroitness, alacrity, dexterity, dispatch, ease, eloquence, expedition, facility, fitness, fluency, good will, inclination, keenness, maturity, preparation, preparedness, promptness, prowess, quickness, rapidity, sleight, willingness, aptness, deftness, expedience, handiness, promptitude, ripeness, volubility |
| Antonyms: | discouragement, unpreparedness |
| Main Entry: | tact |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | finesse, thoughtfulness |
| Synonyms: | acumen, acuteness, address, adroitness, amenity, care, common sense, consideration, control, courtesy, delicacy, diplomacy, discernment, discretion, discrimination, gallantry, head, horse sense*, intelligence, judgment, penetration, perception, perspicacity, poise, policy, presence, prudence, refinement, repose, savoir faire, sensitivity, skill, smoothness, suavity, subtlety, understanding, aptness, delicatesse, good taste, politicness, tactfulness, urbanity |
| Antonyms: | carelessness, indiscretion, thoughtlessness, tactlessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | talent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability |
| Synonyms: | aptitude, art, bent*, capability, capacity, craft, endowment, expertise, facility, faculty, flair, forte, genius, gift, green thumb, head*, knack*, know-how*, nose*, power, savvy*, set, skill, smarts*, thing*, turn*, a way with, aptness, inventiveness, the formula, the goods, the right stuff, what it takes |
| Antonyms: | inability, incapacity, lack, weakness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | appropriateness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriate conduct |
| Synonyms: | fitness, propriety, suitability, usefulness, aptness, suitableness |
| Antonyms: | inappropriateness, unsuitableness |
| Main Entry: | expertise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
| Synonyms: | ability, ableness, adroitness, aptness, art, bag, chops, cleverness, command, competence, craft, cunning, deftness, dexterity, dodge, expertness, expertness, facility, finesse, goods, ingeniousness, judgment, knack, know-how, line, makings, masterliness, mastery, oil, one's thing, proficiency, prowess, readiness, savvy, sharpness, skill, skillfulness, stuff |
| Main Entry: | mot juste |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the right word |
| Synonyms: | aptness, right word at the right time |
| Main Entry: | expediency/expedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriateness; worth |
| Synonyms: | advantage, advisability, benefit, convenience, effectiveness, efficiency, fitness, helpfulness, opportunism, opportunity, order, policy, practicality, propriety, prudence, suitability, usefulness, utility, advantageousness, appositeness, aptness, desirability, judiciousness, meetness, pragmatism, profitability, profitableness, properness, propitiousness, rightness, utilitarianism |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage, inappropriateness |
| Main Entry: | faculty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability, skill |
| Synonyms: | adroitness, aptitude, bent, capability, capacity, cleverness, dexterity, facility, flair, forte, genius, gift, instinct, intelligence, knack, leaning, nose*, peculiarity, penchant, pistol*, power, predilection, proclivity, propensity, property, quality, readiness, reason, right stuff*, sense, strength, talent, turn, aptness, knowing way around, what it takes, wits |
| Antonyms: | inability, incompetence, lack, need, ineptness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inclination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tendency, bent |
| Synonyms: | affection, appetite, aptitude, attachment, attraction, bias, capability, capacity, cup of tea*, desire, disposition, drift, fancy, fondness, groove*, idiosyncrasy, impulse, leaning, liking, mind, movement, partiality, penchant, persuasion, pleasure, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, proclivity, propensity, slant*, soft spot*, stomach*, susceptibility, taste, temperament, thing*, trend, turn*, type, urge, weakness, whim, will, wish, aptness, druthers, proneness, velleity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | propriety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | suitableness, appropriateness |
| Synonyms: | advisability, compatibility, concord, congruity, consonance, convenience, correctness, correspondence, decorum, fitness, harmony, justice, morality, order, rectitude, respectability, suitability, accordance, agreeableness, appositeness, aptness, becomingness, ethicality, expedience, legitimacy, meetness, pleasantness, properness, recommendability, rightness, seemliness |
| Antonyms: | impropriety, wrong, immorality, inappropriateness, unsuitableness |
| Main Entry: | capacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability; competency |
| Synonyms: | adequacy, aptitude, bent, caliber, capability, cleverness, compass, competence, efficiency, facility, faculty, forte, genius, gift, inclination, intelligence, knack, might, power, qualification, readiness, skill, stature, strength, talent, aptness, brains, the goods, up to it, what it takes |
| Antonyms: | impotence, inability, incompetence |
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