aptness

Synonyms for aptness

noun talent

1530s, from apt + -ness.

As we ran towards the main hatch I recognized the aptness of the comparison.

I marvelled at its aptness, and also that it should have come to me so pat.

This prophecy is wonderful for the aptness of each single word.

Even puns please, from the aptness and pleasantry of their conceits.

There is also an aptness in this selection, which does credit to the 'Patriarch.'

The examples given in the story of the aptness of this remark are often very touching.

I don't know how, and I have no aptness for learning that kind of science.

And they that think it culpably defective in phrase, aptness, or elegancy of style.

For neatness and aptness of expression, it is equal to anything we have seen.

The most scrupulous visitor will fain admit the aptness of mountain nomenclature.