aptitude
/icons/point.icon GIFT, FACULTY, APTITUDE, BENT, TALENT, GENIUS, KNACK mean a special ability for doing something.
GIFT often implies special favor by God or nature.
e.g. the gift of singing beautifully
FACULTY applies to an innate or less often acquired ability for a particular accomplishment or function.
e.g. a faculty for remembering names
APTITUDE implies a natural liking for some activity and the likelihood of success in it.
e.g. a mechanical aptitude
BENT is nearly equal to
APTITUDE but it stresses inclination perhaps more than specific ability.
e.g. a family with an artistic bent
TALENT suggests a marked natural ability that needs to be developed.
e.g. has enough talent to succeed
GENIUS suggests impressive inborn creative ability.
e.g. has no great genius for poetry
KNACK implies a comparatively minor but special ability making for ease and dexterity in performance.
e.g. the knack of getting along
SAT= Scholastic Aptitude Test(大学進学適性試験)
noun
1. a natural ability to do something:
｟ややかたく･主に書｠ 〖通例形容詞を伴って〗 «…に対する» (習得などの)素質, 才能, 適性 «for, in»
e.g. children with an aptitude for painting and drawing.
a natural tendency:
e.g. the aptitude of this society to assimilate new elements.
2. archaic suitability or fitness:
e.g. aptitude of expression.
ORIGIN
late Middle English: via Old French from late Latin aptitudo, from aptus (see apt).