-ibility

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Conditions and characteristics
-ance
-ancy
-ibility
adverse conditions
age
ambience
appearance
aspect
have it in youidiom
hood
humanity
in
presentation
respect
shape
trappings
unaffiliated
undercurrent
vibe
vibe check

ability | American Dictionary

ability
noun[ C/U ]
us/əˈbɪl·ɪ·t̬i/
the mental or physical power or skill needed to do something:
[ U ]They should not be taking in somebody they don't have the ability to care for.
[ C ]Her teammates respect her abilities.

ability | Business English

ability
noun[ C or U ]
uk /əˈbɪləti/us
the power or skill needed to do something, or the fact that someone is able to do something:
There's no doubting her ability.
the ability to do sthA good leader has the ability to motivate people.
We like our employees to have a broad range of abilities, not just good qualifications.

Examples of ability

ability
The ability to manipulate speech sounds depends on knowing alphabetic writing.
This condition thus permitted us to measure the influence of performing two mental operations on the storage abilities of the children.
Coordination problems abound, and their solutions are facilitated when players have the ability to quickly acquire expectations about fellow players' behavior.
At first, infants display discriminatory abilities which span a broad range of phonetic pairs.
This is because their phonetic ability is low and their functional knowledge (in terms of the recoverability principle) is not yet developed.
In conjunction, these properties of social-psychological research have impeded the development of theories with explanatory power and the ability to generate novel and nontrivial hypotheses.
No discrepancy in the ability to define anatomic structure was encountered for the body or outflow regions of the right ventricle.
The insula and temporal gyrus regions are also linked to verbal and language abilities.
The ability of this numerical method to consider non-isotropic initial data represents a decided advantage over other approaches.
Where communities are less well organized, the ability to use events to improve policy is reduced, even if policy making appears to be event-driven.
Could it account for language acquisition and the ability to talk about things that are far removed in time and space?
We made four predictions about the possible roles of group differences, perceptual- motor ability, task difficulty, and chronological age in nonlinguistic performance.
The biofilm's physical properties play important roles in controlling its metabolic activity and its ability to adhere to the substratum and itself.
By teaching useful strategies in the four skill areas, students will have the ability and confidence needed to decode the target language.
The second part will consider evidence for teaching the ability and the impact of such instruction on reading comprehension development.
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Collocations withability

ability

These are words often used in combination with ability.

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academic ability
The influence of both infant attachment security and 4-year attachment security on child competence and academicability was examined first.
acting ability
He was fascinated by the stage, learning everything from set construction to stage production, and embarrassed by his acting ability.
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