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Meaning of "deftness" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF DEFTNESS

ˈdeftnɪs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEFTNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Deftness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DEFTNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Skill

A skill is the learned ability to carry out a task with pre-determined results often within a given amount of time, energy, or both. In other words the abilities that one possesses. Skills can often be divided into domain-general and domain-specific skills. For example, in the domain of work, some general skills would include time management, teamwork and leadership, self motivation and others, whereas domain-specific skills would be useful only for a certain job. Skill usually requires certain environmental stimuli and situations to assess the level of skill being shown and used. People need a broad range of skills in order to contribute to a modern economy. A joint ASTD and U.S. Department of Labor study showed that through technology, the workplace is changing, and identified 16 basic skills that employees must have to be able to change with it.

Definition of deftness in the English dictionary

The definition of deftness in the dictionary is the quality of being deft; skillful dexterity.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEFTNESS

alertness · appropriateness · brightness · completeness · correctness · eyewitness · fitness · greatness · hotness · lightness · politeness · promptness · robustness · shortness · softness · swiftness · tightness · wetness · whiteness · witness

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEFTNESS

defrayal · defrayer · defrayment · defreeze · defriend · defrock · defrost · defroster · deft · deftly · defuel · defunct · defunction · defunctive · defunctness · defund · defuse · defuser · defuze · defy

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEFTNESS

adeptness · adroitness · aptness · aquafitness · bear witness · bluntness · business · colorfastness · compactness · expert witness · flatness · incorrectness · inertness · justness · physical fitness · pleasantness · political correctness · quietness · sweetness · unfitness · vastness

Synonyms and antonyms of deftness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DEFTNESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «deftness» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «deftness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEFTNESS

Find out the translation of deftness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of deftness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «deftness» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

灵巧
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

deftness
570 millions of speakers
en

English

deftness
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

निपुणता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أناقة
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

ловкость
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

deftness
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

চতুরতা
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

habileté
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Deftness
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Gewandtheit
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

器用さ
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

손재주
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Deftness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không khéo tay
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

deftness
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

चोखंदळपणा
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

maharet
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

sveltezza
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

zwinność
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

спритність
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

îndemânare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

deftness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

handigheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

deftness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

deftness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of deftness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEFTNESS»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of deftness
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about deftness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEFTNESS»

Discover the use of deftness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to deftness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Lethal Imagination: Violence and Brutality in American History
"The. Deftness. of. Her. Sex". Innocence,. Guilt,. and. Gender. in. the. Trial. of. Lizzie. Borden. Catherine. Ross. Nickerson. Something terrible and mysterious happened one August morning in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1892. Andrew Borden ...
Michael A. Bellesiles, 1999
2
Pioneers in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research
Comprehension and deftness are necessary but complex requirements (due to the uncertainty and ambiguous character of the new venture) for the emergence of competencies, and it could be proposed that the degree of competence ...
H. Landstrom, 2007
3
The Legacy of Niels Henrik Abel: The Abel Bicentennial, ...
Question 3.6. Is any cleft quantum principal //-bundle over a commutative algebra C homotopically trivial? An affirmative answer would give a "topological" meaning to the algebraic concept of deftness and show that homotopical deftness ...
Niels Henrik Abel, Olav Arnfinn Laudal, Ragni Piene, 2004
4
Expressive Movement: Posture And Action In Daily Life, ...
Deftness. •. Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep. ... I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) 1962, 172 Deftness and ...
Alexandra Pierce, Roger Pierce, 2002
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Matter of Mind : A Neurologist's View of Brain-Behavior ...
Although asymmetries of strength and deftness may influence handedness, some people prefer to use their right hand even though they are stronger and more deft with their left hand and vice versa. These observations suggest that ...
and Program Director University of Florida School of Medicine Kenneth M. Heilman The James E. Rooks Jr. Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Gainesville, 2002
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Encyclopedia of Movement Disorders, Three-Volume Set
A loss of this deftness has been called limb-kinetic apraxia by Liepmann. There are many tests of deftness or dexterity, but we have found the coin rotation task, in which the patient is asked to rotate a nickel between their thumb, index, and ...
‎2010
7
The Boston Process Approach to Neuropsychological ...
Callosal Limb—Kinetic Apraxia As mentioned, limb-kinetic apraxia is characterized by a loss of dexterity or deftness such that patients with this disorder are impaired at making precise independent but coordinated finger movements.
Lee Ashendorf, PhD, Rod Swenson, David J. Libon, 2013
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The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy ...
4. Using. Resource. Allocation. to. Promote. Deftness. Ifyouwantto shape the way an organization behaves, an extraordinarily robust conclusion from academic research is that the resource allocation process is key.1 Firms built to thrive under  ...
Rita Gunther McGrath, 2013
9
Clinical Neuropsychology
well as Hanna-Pladdy and colleagues (2002), have found that people with right hand preference and left hemisphere lesions are also likely to have a loss of deftness in their ipsilesional left hand. In contrast, right-handed people with right  ...
MD Kenneth M. Heilman, Edward Valenstein, MD, 2011
10
Neuropsychological Research: A Review
The classical definition of LKA includes loss of deftness for the hand contralateral to a hemispheric lesion. However, Heilman, Meador, and Loring (2000) and Hanna-Pladdy and colleagues (2002) have found that people with right-hand ...
Peter Mariën, Jubin Abutalebi, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEFTNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term deftness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Chinese Government Struggles in Attempt to Stem Distress in Stock …
Until now, the Chinese government has been widely applauded for its deftness in managing economic matters. For instance, a stimulus ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
2
ASEAN deal on services can be hamstrung by national rules
The sheer diversity of preferences, capacities and priorities among the membership calls for deftness in negotiations. Some embrace the ... «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»
3
West Cork Chamber Music Festival searches for a new Bantry home
At the lighter end of things, the trio of Philippe Bernold (flute), Chloë Hanslip (violin) and Lilli Maijala (viola) brought great deftness to some ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
4
Hat-trick hero Wilde fires Saints to Champions League tie victory
The lively Sam Finley was the creative fulcrum for the Saints; showing a deftness of touch and his extensive passing range to initiate several ... «Border Counties Advertizer, Jul 15»
5
2016 Subaru BRZ And WRX: Let Loose On Some Great Roads
The BRZ demands even more subtlety and deftness to perform well over these very slippery surfaces. With the antiskid in Sport mode, a good ... «The Car Guide, Jul 15»
6
Benjamin Markovits's Obama Novel
... the blow from the president's elbow — that demonstrate the density of the fictional world he's conjured and his deftness in stage-managing it. «Vulture, Jul 15»
7
Video Vault - 'I love you, Mr Lange' and Courtney Love with Newsboy
... but he was no match for Lange's verbal deftness. His infamous parting shot of "I love you, Mr Lange" felt almost like an admission of defeat, ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
8
The Many Contradictions of Mona Hatoum
Her work “manages to combine accusation and poetry with a masterly deftness,” the Sunday Times critic Waldemar Januszczak wrote of her ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
9
Aziz Ansari's Modern Romance marries humor and scientific insight
... for the times, probing a key issue of modern life—the collision between our off- and online lives—with as much deftness as Richard Pryor and ... «A.V. Club Austin, Jul 15»
10
Lobo course corrects on ODP, but only just
... grave by pushing the villages under the Outline Development Plan, Lobo decided to be pragmatic, displaying political deftness of a rare kind. «Oherald, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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