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Skillfulness

Definition: Skillfulness

Skillfulness

Noun

1. The state of being cognitively skillful.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "skillfulness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references)


Antonym: unskillfulness (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Skillfulness

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Skill

Noun: skill, skillfulness, address; dexterity, dexterousness; adroitness, expertness; Adjective: proficiency, competence, technical competence, craft, callidity, facility, knack, trick, sleight; mastery, mastership, excellence, panurgy; ambidexterity, ambidextrousness; sleight of hand; (deception).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Skillfulness

English words defined with "skillfulness": command, controlefficiency, expertise, expertnessfluencymasteryproficiencytechnique. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Skillfulness

DomainTitle

Books

  • Integrity of Heart and Skillfulness of Hands: Biblical and Leadership Studies in Honor of Donald K. Campbell (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Skillfulness

Language Translations for "skillfulness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

bedrewenheid (accomplishment, expertness, skilfulness, skill). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مهارة (adeptness, adroitness, cleverness, dexterity, expertise, expertness, know how, proficiency, skill, smartness), ‏براعة (address, artfulness, artifice, cleverness, craft, craftiness, cunning, dexterity, facility, finesse, hand, ingeniousness, ingenuity, knack, know how, mastery, proficiency, science, skill, sleight of hand, tact, trick, workmanship). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

slag (accomplishment, action, agony, battle, blow, expertness, fight, grasp, kind, knock, movement, scuffle, skilfulness, skill, snare, sort, struggle, trap, turn), vlugheid (accomplishment, expertness, skilfulness, skill, speed), vaardigheid (accomplishment, expertness, skilfulness, skill), handigheid (accomplishment, expertness, skilfulness, skill), bedrevenheid (accomplishment, expertness, skilfulness, skill). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

lerteco (expertness, skilfulness, skill), ekzerciteco (expertness, skilfulness, skill). (various references)

   

German

  

geschicklichkeit (accomplishment, adroitness, agility, aptness, cleverness, craft, dexterity, expertness, handicraft, handiness, prestidigitation, skilfulness, skill, sleight, slickness). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

επιτηδειότησ (cunning, deftness, handiness, skill, sleight), επιτηδειότητα (cunning, deftness, dexterity, handiness, skill, sleight, suitability). (various references)

   

Italian

  

abilit (ability, accomplishment, adeptness, adroitness, artifice, capability, capacity, cleverness, craft, cunning, expertise, expertness, ingenuity, knack, know how, mastership, mastery, proficiency, prowess, skilfulness, skill, sleight). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

八挺 , 八丁 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

はっちょう. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

abilidat (ability, accomplishment, expertness, skilfulness, skill). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

illfulnessskay

   

Russian 

  

искусность (cleverness, ingenuity, neatness, subtlety). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vičnost (cleverness, dexterity, mastery, proficiency, technique). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

habilidad (ability, address, adroitness, aptitude, aptness, artifice, capacity, cleverness, competence, competency, deftness, expertise, facility, habitably, know how, neatness, possibility, proficiency, prowess, savoir faire, skilfulness, skill, sleight), destreza (accomplishment, adeptness, adroitness, antfencing, artfulness, craft, dexterity, expertness, fencing, know how, skilfulness, skill), agilidad (accomplishment, adroitness, agility, deftness, dexterousness, expertness, lightning, nimbleness, quickness, readiness, skilfulness, skill). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

medrusrwydd (cleverness, skill). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Skillfulness

Derivations

Words beginning with "skillfulness": skillfulnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "skillfulness": unskillfulness. (additional references)

Words containing "skillfulness": unskillfulnesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Skillfulness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: skillfullness. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Skillfulness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-i-k-l-l-l-n-s-s-s-u"

-3 letters: sulkiness.

-4 letters: flunkies, fullness, skilless, skillful, skinfuls, skinless.

-5 letters: finless, fulness, illness, infuses, inkless, silenus, sinless, sinuses, skilful, skinful, sulkies, sullies, sunless, sunlike, susliks, unsells.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-i-k-l-l-l-n-s-s-s-u"
 

+2 letters: skillfulnesses, unskillfulness.

 

+4 letters: unskillfulnesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Skillfulness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6B 69 6C 6C 66 75 6C 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-    ..    .-..    .-..    ..-.    ..-    .-..    -.    .    ...    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101011 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100110 01110101 01101100 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#107 &#105 &#108 &#108 &#102 &#117 &#108 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006B 0069 006C 006C 0066 0075 006C 006E 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

537775787872877880718585

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Skillfulness"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Afrikaans

woordeboek, definisie, vertalingAfrikaans, Zuidafrikaans, afrikansa lingvo, afrikansa, afrikanisch, Afrikander, Afrikaander, アフリカーンス語 , アフタ性口内炎 , アフリカーンス", アフリカーンス , африкаанс, afrikans, africaans

Arabic

‏معجم, ‏قاموس, ‏الوضوحية في الشيء, ‏حد, ‏تحديد, ‏تعريف, ‏التحديد, ‏الإيضاحية, ‏ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ‏ترجمة, ‏إفتتانArabies, ‏العربية, ‏عربي, ‏اللغة العربية, arabisch, αραβικόσ, arabo, arabir, арабский, arapski, árabe

Dutch

woordenboek, definitie, translatieNederlands, Hollands, ‏هولندي, ‏اللغة الهولندية, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, ulandes, hulandes, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés

Esperanto

vortaro, difino, traduko‏الاسبرانتو لغة دولية, esperanton, εσπεράντο, エスキモー犬 , エスペラント , эсперанто, esperanto

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, DefinitionDuits, Duitser, Duitse taal, Germaan, ‏ضرب من الرقص, ‏جرماني, ‏الماني, ‏اللغة الألمانية, ‏المانية, Duitse, "ερμανός, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , немецкий, germanski, alemán, Almaenwr

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηGrieks, Griek, ‏يوناني, ‏اللغة اليونانية, ‏الإغريقي, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, Groegwr

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneItaliaans, Italiaan, Italianer, ‏الإيطالي, ‏اللغة الإيطالية, ‏إيطالي, ‏شخص إيطالي, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski

Japanese Kanji

辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 ‏يابانية, ‏ياباني, ‏اليابانية, ‏اللغة اليابانية, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", hapones, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, Japanner, Japannees, Japans

Japanese Katakana

じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ‏يابانية, ‏ياباني, ‏اليابانية, ‏اللغة اليابانية, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", hapones, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, Japanner, Japannees, Japans

Papiamen

dikshonario, definishon, tradukshon

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеRussies, Rus, ‏روسي, ‏اللغة الروسية, ‏الروسية, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenjeserbokroatisch, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónSpaanse taal, ‏اللغة الأسبانية, ‏الأسبانية, ‏أسباني, Spaans, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , spañó, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español

Welsh

geirlyfr, geiriadur, diffiniad, darnodiad, trosiadWallies, ‏تهرب من دفع الرهان, ‏الولزية لغة إقليم ويلز, ‏ويلزي, Wels, walisisch, ουάλλοσ, ουαλλικόσ, δεν πληρώνω τα οφειλόμενα, gallese, уэльский, velšanin, podvaliti, velški jezik, velški, galés, Cymreig

English

Dictionary, Definition, TranslationEngels, ‏الإنجليزية, ‏الأنكليزي, ‏إنكليزي, ‏ترجمة إنكليزية, ‏اللغة الإنكليزية, anglan, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, Saesneg
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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