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ADROITNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does adroitness mean?
• ADROITNESS (noun)
The noun ADROITNESS has 1 sense:
1. skillful performance or ability without difficulty
Familiarity information: ADROITNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("adroitness" is a kind of...):
skillfulness (the state of being cognitively skillful)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adroitness"):
touch (deftness in handling matters)
dexterity; manual dexterity; sleight (adroitness in using the hands)
Derivation:
adroit (quick or skillful or adept in action or thought)
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