Synonyms for talent

noun

1. A gift

   aptitude, faculty, gift, genius, facility, skill, capability, expertise, inventiveness, turn, forte, knack*; see also ability 1, 2.

2. *A famous person

   celebrity, notable, find*; see star 3.

talent implies an apparently native ability for a specific pursuit and connotes either that it is or can be cultivated by the one possessing it a talent for drawing; gift suggests that a special ability is bestowed upon one, as by nature, and not acquired through effort a gift for making plants grow; aptitude implies a natural inclination for a particular work, specif. as pointing to special fitness for, or probable success in, it aptitude tests; faculty implies a special ability that is either inherent or acquired, as well as a ready ease in its exercise the faculty of judgment; knack implies an acquired faculty for doing something cleverly and skillfully the knack of rhyming; genius implies an inborn mental endowment, specif. of a creative or inventive kind in the arts or sciences, that is exceptional or phenomenal the genius of Edison