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dexterity

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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: ability
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: power to act, perform

Synonyms:

aptitude, capability, capacity, competence, competency, comprehension, dexterity, endowment, facility, faculty, intelligence, might, potentiality, qualification, resourcefulness, skill, strength, talent, understanding
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:

impotence, inability, limitation, paralysis
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: art
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: skill, creativity

Synonyms:

adroitness, aptitude, artistry, craft, craftsmanship, dexterity, expertise, facility, imagination, ingenuity, inventiveness, knack, know-how, knowledge, mastery, method, profession, trade, virtuosity

Antonyms:

lack, unskill
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: 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: 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: 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
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

Antonyms:

difficulty, hardness
Main Entry: faculty
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ability, skill

Synonyms:

adroitness, aptitude, aptness, bent, capability, capacity, cleverness, dexterity, facility, flair, forte, genius, gift, instinct, intelligence, knack, knowing way around, leaning, nose*, peculiarity, penchant, pistol, power, predilection, proclivity, propensity, property, quality, readiness, reason, right stuff, sense, strength, talent, turn, what it takes, wits

Antonyms:

inability, incompetence, ineptness, lack, need
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