The phrase "ability to admit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity or willingness to acknowledge a truth or fact, often in a personal or emotional context.
Example: "Her ability to admit her mistakes is a sign of her maturity and growth."
Alternatives: "capacity to acknowledge" or "willingness to confess".
Our future will be largely determined by our ability to admit the need to end planetary socialism.
In fact, the ability to admit addiction and the will to change are necessary first steps to any successful detoxification program.
But what Missourians lack is a robust self-skepticism – the ability to admit that we are wrong, or plain don't know.
The counseling center does not have the ability to admit suicidal or psychotic students overnight for observation or to administer powerful drugs to calm them.
I didn't know how rare this was at the time but have since come to appreciate no doctoral skill more than the ability to admit ignorance.
I am not comforted by Nelson Bryant's ability to admit the contradictions inherent in hunting ("Outdoors: The Heritage of the Hunter," The New York Times, March 3).
IRA DAVIDSON New York, Sept. 10, 2006 Reading your accounting of the fairness of The Times's photographic coverage of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, I was impressed by the editors' ability to simultaneously admit and deny using tit-for-tat, one-from-column-A-and-one-from-column-B editing.
Rather, it's the ability to quickly admit - and fix - them!
This is perhaps clearest in the Categories, where the ability of substance to admit incompatible accidental features is more-or-less definitional.
They should be ashamed of backing a man with no filter, no decency, no empathy, no ability to apologize, to admit he was wrong.
Like Hsu and his meritocratic hard talents, everyone in this game -- recruiters and the recruited -- accept the terms of the deal: that wealth should reward the ability to get admitted to a certain school.
