The quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually.

synonym: competency.

Roget 639: sufficiency, adequacy, enough, withal, satisfaction, competence; no less; quantum sufficit [Lat.], Q.   S. mediocrity etc. (average) 29.    fill; fullness etc. (completeness) 52; plenitude, plenty; abundance; copiousness etc. adj.; amplitude, galore, lots, profusion; full measure; good measure pressed down and running, over." luxuriance etc. (fertility) 168; affluence etc. (wealth) 803; fat of the land; a land flowing with milk and honey;" cornucopia; horn of plenty, horn of Amalthaea; mine etc. (stock) 636.    outpouring; flood etc. (great quantity) 31; tide etc. (river) 348; repletion etc. (redundancy) 641; satiety etc. 869.    ... show more

Roget 698: skill, skillfulness, address; dexterity, dexterousness; adroitness, expertness etc. adj.; proficiency, competence, technical competence, craft, callidity^†, facility, knack, trick, sleight; mastery, mastership, excellence, panurgy^†; ambidexterity, ambidextrousness^†; sleight of hand etc. (deception) 545.    seamanship, airmanship, marksmanship, horsemanship; rope-dancing.    accomplishment, acquirement, attainment; art, science; technicality, technology; practical knowledge, technical knowledge.    knowledge of the world, world wisdom, savoir faire [Fr.]; tact; mother wit etc. (sagacity) 498; discretion etc. (caution) 864; finesse; craftiness etc. (cunning) 702; management etc. (conduct) 692; self-help.    cleverness, talent, ability, ingenuity, capacity, parts, talents, faculty, endowment, forte, turn, gift, genius; intelligence etc. 498; sharpness, readiness etc. (activity) 682; invention etc. 515; aptness, aptitude; turn for, capacity for, genius for; felicity, capability, curiosa felicitas [Lat.], qualification, habilitation.    proficient etc. 700.    masterpiece, coup de maitre [Fr.], chef d'euvre [Fr.], tour de force; good stroke etc. (plan) 626.    ... show more

Roget 803: wealth, riches, fortune, handsome fortune, opulence, affluence; good circumstances, easy circumstances; independence; competence etc. (sufficiency) 639; solvency.    provision, livelihood, maintenance; alimony, dowry; means, resources, substance; property etc. 780; command of money.    income etc. 810; capital, money; round sum etc. (treasure) 800; mint of money, mine of wealth, El Dorado [Sp.], bonanza, Pacatolus, Golconda, Potosi.    long purse, full purse, well lined purse, heavy purse, deep pockets; purse of Fortunatus [Lat.]; embarras de richesses [Fr.].    pelf, Mammon, lucre, filthy lucre; loaves and fishes^†.    rich man, moneyed man, warm man; man of substance; capitalist, millionaire, tippybob [Slang], Nabob, Croesus, idas, Plutus, Dives, Timon of Athens^†; Timocracy, Plutocracy; Danae.    ... show more

Dutch: bevoegdheid, bekwaamheid, competentie, kunde, kundigheid