ability

• "a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment"

• "danger heightened his powers of discrimination"

Synonyms

• powersupply the force or power for the functioning of; possession of controlling influence; (physics) the rate of doing work; possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done; (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power; one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority; a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself ; physical strength ; a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world ; energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor; a very wealthy or powerful businessman