1. faculty
noun. ['ˈfækəlti'] one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind.
Synonyms
- sentience
- sense
- understanding
- sensory faculty
- sensation
- module
- retentiveness
- reason
- retentivity
- sentiency
- power
- retention
- will
- speech
- language
- ability
- mental faculty
- memory
- attention
- volition
Antonyms
- nonintellectual
- stupidity
- intellectual
- sentient
Etymology
- faculte (Middle English (1100-1500))
- faculte (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
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Words that Rhyme with Faculty
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Example sentences of the word faculty
1. Noun, singular or mass
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Quotes containing the word faculty
1. Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
- Mark Twain
2. Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.
- Aristotle
3. Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
- Erich Fromm
2. faculty
noun. ['ˈfækəlti'] the body of teachers and administrators at a school.
Synonyms
- staff
- professor
- body
- school
Antonyms
- inanimateness
- insentience
- unconsciousness
- incognizance
Etymology
- faculte (Middle English (1100-1500))
- faculte (Old French (842-ca. 1400))