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Mental ability   /mˈɛntəl əbˈɪləti/   Listen
Mental ability

noun
1.
The power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior.  Synonym: capacity.  Antonym: incapacity.






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"Mental ability" Quotes from Famous Books



... J. M. Neal, of Edinburg, Scotland, for some information that I needed badly. He was a medical doctor of five years training, a man of much mental ability, who would give his opinions freely and to the point. I have been told by one or more Scotch M. D.'s that a Dr. John M. Neal, of Edinburg, was hung for murder. He was not hung while with me. The only thing made me doubt him being a Scotchman was he loved whiskey, and I had ...
— Philosophy of Osteopathy • Andrew T. Still

... electors of Westminster know of Mr. Mill? What fraction of his mind could be imagined by any percentage of their minds? A great deal of his genius most of them would not like. They meant to do homage to mental ability, but it was the worship of an unknown God—if ever there was such a thing in this world. But upon the voluntary plan, one thousand out of the many thousand students of Mr. Mill's book could have made an appreciating ...
— The English Constitution • Walter Bagehot

... concerning the behavior and mental life of the anthropoid apes is difficult to find, and still more rare are reports concerning experimental studies of these animals. There are, it is true, a few articles descriptive of tests of mental ability, but even these are scarcely deserving of being classed as satisfactory experimental studies of the psychology of the ape. I have the satisfaction of being able to present in the present report the first systematic experimental ...
— The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes - A Study of Ideational Behavior • Robert M. Yerkes



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