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adeptness
[ uh-dept-nis ]
noun
- the quality or fact of being highly skilled or expert at something; proficiency:
Thanks to the teacher’s adeptness at explaining the intricacies of calculus, her students quickly grasped even the more arcane concepts.
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Other Words From
- non·a·dept·ness noun
- un·a·dept·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of adeptness1
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Example Sentences
Adeptness in the performance of our values must be ever-present, but identifying and sticking with those values come first.
If so, the little trick had been done with deplorable spontaneity or adeptness of usage.
Yet deep in his nature was that obliquity, that adeptness at trickery, that facility in deceit, which made him the success he was.
Lubimoff was astonished at the way this woman spoke in all seriousness of her present adeptness.
An adeptness at discovering grievances has lately been one of the principal recommendations to public notice and popular applause.
She answered shortly enough, and the skimming of the milk was not done with the adeptness which she usually displayed.
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