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NATURAL ABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does natural ability mean?
• NATURAL ABILITY (noun)
The noun NATURAL ABILITY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: NATURAL ABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ability that is inherited
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("natural ability" is a kind of...):
aptitude (inherent ability)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "natural ability"):
endowment; gift; natural endowment; talent (natural abilities or qualities)
Context examples
HIV is a virus which affects white blood cells and eventually destroys the body's natural ability to fight infections.
(HIV antibody, NCI Thesaurus)
In studies of gene therapy for cancer, researchers are trying to improve the body's natural ability to fight the disease or to make the cancer cells more sensitive to other kinds of therapy.
(Gene therapy, NCI Dictionary)
The goal is to correct alignment problems, ease pain, and support the body's natural ability to heal itself.
(Chiropractic, NIH: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine)
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