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ADEPTNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adeptness mean? 

ADEPTNESS (noun)
  The noun ADEPTNESS has 1 sense:

1. skillful performance or ability without difficultyplay

  Familiarity information: ADEPTNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ADEPTNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Skillful performance or ability without difficulty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

adeptness; adroitness; deftness; facility; quickness

Context example:

he was famous for his facility as an archer

Hypernyms ("adeptness" is a kind of...):

skillfulness (the state of being cognitively skillful)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adeptness"):

touch (deftness in handling matters)

dexterity; manual dexterity; sleight (adroitness in using the hands)

Derivation:

adept (having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude)


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