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/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
noun usually in singular
an acquired or natural skill at performing a task:
«…する/…の» こつ, 要領, 特技, 技巧 «for［of, to］ doing/for, of»
e.g. she got the knack of it in the end.
a tendency to do something:
｟英｠ «…する» 癖, 習性 «of doing»
e.g. the band has a knack of warping classic soul songs.
ORIGIN
late Middle English (originally denoting a clever or deceitful trick): probably related to obsolete knack ‘sharp blow or sound’, of imitative origin (compare with Dutch knak ‘crack, snap’).