special power

Exceptional innate capability

Special power refers to an ability or authority beyond ordinary capacity.

In legal contexts, a special power of attorney grants limited authority to act on someone's behalf for specific matters: She gave him special power to sell the house.

In fiction and games, special powers are supernatural or extraordinary abilities: His special power was invisibility.

Children often imagine having special powers like flying or reading minds.

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capability level

special powerweakness

Deficiency in force

impotence · powerlessness · inability · helplessness · incapacity

extraordinariness

special powernatural talent

authority scope

special powerenumerated powers

Authorities explicitly granted by constitution

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G