Synonyms of endowments

endowments

noun

plural of endowment

as in talents

a special and usually inborn ability

it's a sin to waste one's God-given endowments

Synonyms & Similar Words

• talents
• gifts
• aptitudes
• knacks
• faculties
• flairs
• bents
• geniuses
• eyes
• affinities
• tendencies
• ears
• skills
• facilities
• heads
• feels
• minds
• inclinations
• impulses
• dispositions
• propensities
• capacities
• proclivities
• biases
• predispositions
• instincts
• capabilities
• powers
• predilections
• noses
• leanings
• potentials
• partialities
• ways
• habitudes
• penchants
• touches
• competences
• hangs
• turns
• proficiencies
• specialties
• specialities
• fortes
• specialisms

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• disabilities
• handicaps
• incapacities
• weaknesses
• shortcomings
• inabilities

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of endowments

The investors best positioned for this market--mega-cap balance sheets, sovereign funds, multi-decade endowments--simply don't need their money back on any timeline. — Carrie McCabe, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

Washington also bars its pension funds and college endowments from investing into Chinese firms developing sensitive technologies. — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 16 July 2026

The effects have been felt most acutely at schools with small endowments and those that enroll large percentages of international students recruited from abroad. — Molly Gibbs, Mercury News, 16 July 2026

These endowments still operate today according to the rules that Noyes prescribed in 1919. — Thomas Adam, The Conversation, 16 July 2026

When the two endowments were created, in 1965, the arts were still largely understood in formalist, apolitical terms. — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 13 July 2026

Legacy Foundation is partnering with local nonprofits to support community projects and programs and working to build unrestricted endowments supporting Lake County. — Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2026

For smaller private colleges that are tuition dependent and lack substantial and accessible endowments, even a modest reduction in enrollment could prove calamitous. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 6 July 2026

Kinshasa hopes the bourse, which will list securities in both the local currency and the US dollar, will tap into global interest in its mineral endowments. — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 3 July 2026