ability

1. The quality of being able to perform;
   A quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment (synset 105207437)
   tells us about:

   • able - (usually followed by `to') having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something
   • unable - (usually followed by `to') not having the necessary means or skill or know-how
   is a type of: quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
   subtypes:

   • adaptability - the ability to change (or be changed) to fit changed circumstances
   • sensitiveness, sensitivity - the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
   • competence, competency - the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually
   • form - an ability to perform well
   • interoperability - (computer science) the ability to exchange and use information (usually in a large heterogeneous network made up of several local area networks)
   • magical ability, magical power - an ability to perform magic
   • midas touch - an ability to make and manage large amounts of money
   • penetration - the ability to make way into or through something
   • physical ability - the ability to perform some physical act; contrasting with mental ability
   • contractility - the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter
   • capability, capableness - the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally
   • totipotence, totipotency - the ability of a cell to give rise to unlike cells and so to develop a new organism or part
   • immunocompetence - the ability to develop an immune response following exposure to an antigen
2. Possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done (synset 105624029)
   "danger heightened his powers of discrimination"
   tells us about: able - (usually followed by `to') having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something
   is a type of: cognition, knowledge, noesis - the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
   subtypes:

   • know-how - the (technical) knowledge and skill required to do something
   • leadership - the ability to lead
   • intelligence - the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience
   • aptitude - inherent ability
   • bilingualism - the ability to speak two languages colloquially
   • capacity, mental ability - the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior
   • creative thinking, creativeness, creativity - the ability to create
   • originality - the ability to think and act independently
   • science, skill - ability to produce solutions in some problem domain
   • accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, attainment, skill - an ability that has been acquired by training
   • hand - ability
   • superior skill - more than ordinary ability
   • faculty, mental faculty, module - one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
   same as: power

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