Proficiency

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Proficience \Pro*fi"cience\, Proficiency \Pro*fi"cien*cy\, n.
     The quality of state of being proficient; advance in the
     acquisition of any art, science, or knowledge; progression in
     knowledge; improvement; adeptness; as, to acquire proficiency
     in music.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  proficiency
       n 1: the quality of having great facility and competence
       2: skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from
          practice and familiarity; "practice greatly improves
          proficiency" [syn: {technique}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  112 Moby Thesaurus words for "proficiency":
     ability, ableness, address, adeptness, adequacy, adroitness,
     advancement, airmanship, all-knowingness, anabasis, aptitude,
     artfulness, artisanship, artistry, bravura, brilliance, caliber,
     capability, capableness, capacity, cleverness, command, competence,
     competency, condition, control, coordination, craft, craftsmanship,
     cross-disciplinary knowledge, cunning, deep knowledge, deftness,
     dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, efficacy,
     efficiency, encyclopedic knowledge, expertise, expertness,
     extensive knowledge, facility, faculty, finesse, fitness,
     fittedness, flair, general knowledge, genius, grace, grip,
     handiness, headway, horsemanship, ingeniousness, ingenuity, knack,
     know-how, march, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, maturity,
     omniscience, ongoing, pansophy, polyhistory, polymathy,
     practical ability, preparedness, profound knowledge, progress,
     prowess, qualification, quickness, readiness, resource,
     resourcefulness, ripeness, savoir faire, savoir-faire, savvy,
     seamanship, seasoning, skill, skillfulness, special knowledge,
     style, sufficiency, suitability, suitableness, suitedness,
     susceptibility, tact, tactfulness, talent, technical brilliance,
     technical mastery, technical skill, technique, tempering,
     the goods, the stuff, timing, trim, virtuosity, what it takes, wit,
     wizardry, workmanship