- Fixed and strong desire; esp. natural desire; a craving;
an eager appetite. - Specifically: An instinctive inclination or propensity
in animals to perform certain actions, as in the young to suck, in
aquatic fowls to enter into water and to swim; the tendency of an
organized body to seek what satisfies the wants of its organism. - Natural tendency; affinity; attraction; -- used of
inanimate objects.
- Innate ability - Natural ability - Skilfulness - Skill - Slight change in attitude needed in order to unearth natural talent - A natural or acquired disposition or capacity for a
particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as,
oil has an aptitude to burn. - A general fitness or suitableness; adaptation.