skill

Meaning

1. Capacity to do something well; technique, ability. Skills are usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often thought of as innate.
2. (obsolete) Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
3. (obsolete) Knowledge; understanding.
4. (obsolete) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.

ability

competency

cum-savvy

address

fine workmanship

master hand

know how

professional knowledge

one’s intention

good move

special skill

scope of one’s power

quality of work

technique use of the hands

practical knowledge

savoir-faire

Art

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technical ability

consummate skill

acquired habit

acquiry

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abilities

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skɪl/

From Middle English skill, skille (also schil, schile), from Old English scille and Old Norse skil (“a distinction, discernment, knowledge”), from Proto-Germanic *skilją (“separation, limit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Danish skel (“a separation, boundary, divide”), Swedish skäl (“reason”), Dutch verschil (“difference”) and schillen (“to separate the outer layer (schil) from the product”, verb).