Ability and Good

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Ability noun - The physical or mental power to do something.

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Good and ability are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Good" instead a noun "Ability".

Nearby Word: able

Good noun - Something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing.

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Ability and good are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ability" instead a noun "Good".

Nearby Words: goodness, goodly, goody

good	good ability	good good
rare	rare ability	rare good
best	best ability	best good
long	long ability	long good
Other adjectives: particular, common, single, strong, powerful, actual, real, great, little, main, useless, inherent, ultimate, new, general, greater, primary, basic.

Your ability to judge how good someone is at a skill is directly proportional to your ability at the skill itself, barring outside instruction.

Source: Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance
Severus Snape is given the job of teaching Harry the skill of Occlumency in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the ability to shield one's thoughts from the magical mind-reading ability of the series villain, because Snape is known to be exceptionally good at it.

Source: Chekhovs Skill / Literature
At first, it seems "Talent" is his exception, but Ash is stated several times to have an unusual ability to create deep bonds with Pokémon due to his extremely good heart and persistence.

Source: Japanese Spirit

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