FINESSES Synonyms

• skillful performance or ability without difficulty

• the quality of being adroit in taking unfair advantage

• intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)

• the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

• the power of creative imagination

• intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty

• the property of being ingenious

• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

• the quality of being crafty

• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

• crafty artfulness (especially in deception)

• attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness

• marked by skill in deception

• showing inventiveness and skill

• skillful performance or ability without difficulty

• adroitness in using the hands

• skillfulness by virtue of possessing special knowledge

• subtly skillful handling of a situation

• great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity

• power to dominate or defeat

• the act of mastering or subordinating someone

• the quality of having great facility and competence

• skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity

• an ability that has been acquired by training

• ability to produce solutions in some problem domain

• verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

• a kind of fluent easy superficiality

• a slippery smoothness