WordNet
n. the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior [syn: capacity] [ant: incapacity]
Usage examples of "mental ability".
Similarly, gulls and probably all other birds have the mental ability to distinguish their own young, their mates, members of their social group and so on.
I have ascertained that the Emperor himself is not aware of the precise nature of my mental ability.
Long ago my race forsook machines, knowing that in its mental ability, within the depth of its collective mind it had more potentiality than it could ever get from a clattering piece of mechanism.
Each day, he regains 1 point to each mental ability, and loses 1 from each inflated physical score.
Why was that, since Colene had explained about Seqiro's mental ability?
The Emperor had said that she was from a plane governed by mental ability.
You have been learning from me during our contact, gaining some of my mental ability just as I gain some of yours.
Joe-Jim Gregory was almost as nearly unique in his -- or their -- mental ability as he was in his bodily construction.
Gaia, however, is a planetary organism of great mental ability and has no fear.