Etymology

skillfulness

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Today it means: The state or quality of being adept or skillful. Full definition →

Middle English skylfulnesse
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromskylfulnesse
  2. English todayskillfulness

From Middle English skylfulnesse, equivalent to skillful + -ness.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.