CHESMAYNE
Ability
“Girls
Picking Flowers”, Auguste Renoir
01 Power or
capacity to do or act in any relation.
Competence in chess or on the field of action, from the possession of
capacity, skill, means, or other qualification.
Talents, mental gifts or endowments. Capability, proficiency, expertness,
dexterity.
02 Ability, faculty,
talent denote mental qualifications or powers.
Ability is a general word for mental power, native or acquired, enabling
one to do things well. A person of
great ability, ability
in chess, etc.
03 Faculty denotes
a natural ability for a particular kind of action: a faculty for saying what
s/he means.
04 Talent is often
used to mean a native ability or aptitude in a special field. A talent for music, art, chess.
“If
life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy”.
A. P. Gouthey.