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.