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subtle or imaginative ability in inventing, devising, or executing something<with unbelievable skill, the expert in origami transformed a few sheets of paper into a menagerie of exotic animals>Synonymsadeptness, adroitness, art, artfulness, artifice, artistry, cleverness, craft, cunning, deftness, masterfulness, skillfulnessRelated Wordsdexterity, ease, finesse, handiness; experience, expertise, expertness, know-how, proficiency; creativity, ingenuity, inventiveness, knowledge, learning; aptitude, bent, flair, gift, knack, talentNear Antonymsamateurishness, awkwardness, clumsiness, crudeness, rudeness; inability, inadequacy, incapability, incapacity, incompetence, ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, inefficiencyAntonymsartlessness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness
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skills plural
knowledge gained by actually doing or living through something<he had acquired valuable skills during his life at sea>— see experience 1
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