acquirement

Examples

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• Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation.

  Blog text (29)

• Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation.

  Blog text (29)

• On the first Saturday of October, in 1803, eleven distinguished gentlemen from Natchez met to declare themselves the Mississippi Society for the Acquirement and Dissemination of Useful Knowledge.

  Academic text (2017)

• The later passage reads: "The movement onwards, of that mental centre, to which both what we know and what we are learning, the accumulating mass of our acquirements, gravitates" (Idea 134, emphasis added).

  Academic text (1992)

• The enlargement is the action of a formative power, reducing to order and meaning the matter of our acquirements; it is making the objects of our knowledge subjectively our own (134, emphasis added).

  Academic text (1992)

• "All presumably because they took a bite out of the rotten apple by the poison tree." Their knowledge flies in the face of presumed normative knowledge; they supplant hegemonic means of knowledge acquirement with their own epistemological framework.

  Academic text (2016)

• Through years of practice, her acquirement of languages has made her fluent in five different tongues.

• His steady acquirement of technical abilities impressed his employer and led to a promotion.

Synonyms

A

ability

vsacquirement

∞ 1.0

Skill or power to do something

specifies this capacity was gained specifically through training or learning

S

skill

vsacquirement

∞ 1.0

Ability to do something well because of practice or training

names the fact of having gained that capacity through learning

A

accomplishment

vsacquirement

102 3.5

A skill that you learn by practice

focuses on obtaining competence rather than the achievement

M

mastery

vsacquirement

37 4.2

Very high skill in a subject or activity

applies to any learned competence without implying expert level

A

acquisition

vsacquirement

7 4.9

An ability you learn through practice

is the alternative form naming the same learned competence

A

attainment

vsacquirement

2 5.1

A skill gained by practice or study

covers any competence gained by learning and not only earned achievements

Antonyms

L

loss

247 1.3

A gradual reduction in amount or size

I

inability

177 2.8

Not able to do something you need to do

How Skilled

mastery

37 4.2

skill

∞ 1.0

competence

69 4.1

acquirement

1 7.7

familiarity

38 2.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology