acquisition :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

n. something acquired; "a recent acquisition by the museum"

n. the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge; "the child's acquisition of language"

n. the act of acquiring something; "I envied his talent for acquiring"; "he's much more interested in the getting than in the giving"

accomplishment, attainment, skill, acquirement

n. an ability that has been acquired by training

possession

n. anything owned or possessed

asset

n. a useful or valuable quality

holding, property, belonging, material possession

n. something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone; "that hat is my property"; "he is a man of property";

cognition, knowledge

n. the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

knowingness, awareness, cognizance

n. having knowledge of; "he had no awareness of his mistakes"; "his sudden consciousness of the problem he faced"; "their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive"

cognizance, ken

n. range of what one can know or understand; "beyond my ken"

cognizance

n. range or scope of what is perceived

consciousness

n. an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation; "he lost consciousness"

learning, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, scholarship

n. profound scholarly knowledge

experience

n. the content of direct observation or participation in an event; "he had a religious experience"; "he recalled the experience vividly"

intelligence

n. the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience

realization, realisation, recognition

n. coming to understand something clearly and distinctly; "a growing realization of the risk involved"; "a sudden recognition of the problem he faced"; "increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases"

wisdom

n. accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment

conquest, conquering, enslavement, subjection, subjugation

n. the act of conquering

capability, capableness, potentiality

n. an aptitude that may be developed

facility, proficiency, technique

n. skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity; "practice greatly improves proficiency"

expertise, expertness

n. skillfulness by virtue of possessing special knowledge

capability, capableness

n. the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally; "he worked to the limits of his capability"

craft, guile, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness

n. shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

ruse, artifice

n. a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)

dexterity, sleight, manual dexterity

n. adroitness in using the hands

taste, preference, predilection, penchant

n. a strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney"

ability

n. the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment

control, mastery, command

n. great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity; "a good command of French"

expertise, proficiency

n. the quality of having great facility and competence

comprehension

n. an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result); "how you can do that is beyond my comprehension"; "he was famous for his comprehension of American literature"

leadership

n. the status of a leader; "they challenged his leadership of the union"

competence, competency

n. the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually

gift, endowment, talent, natural endowment

n. natural abilities or qualities

specialty, metier, forte, strength, strong point, long suit

n. an asset of special worth or utility; "cooking is his forte"

awkwardness, ineptness, clumsiness, slowness, ineptitude, maladroitness

n. unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

inability

n. lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something

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