faculty
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5.8
- noun
- /ˈfæklti/
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facultad
- A long time ago, people thought the bumps on your head corresponded to the different faculties of the mind.
- rational faculties
- faculties of the poet
That's the very nature of a faculty of will.
- That's the very nature of a faculty of will.
- What corresponds to the faculty of sight in this case?
- Human consciousness is that faculty that confronts potential itself.
- She faded away, losing her faculties as she went.
- So we'll we'll call the soul a fact, minimally a faculty of knowing.
- Your, all your, your unique individual faculties will still be there, but now they are upgraded.
- Stop trying to demonize or deify any one of your faculties.
- It wasn't that I was so inebriated that I was, I didn't have any faculties.
- And he's going to talk about a faculty that does this.
- Our mind, our body, our breath, our intellect, our memory, all these seven, our faculties in a faculties gets into rhythm.
- Our mind, our body, our breath, our intellect, our memory, all these seven, our faculties, inner faculties gets into rhythm.
Examples
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Prudence is essentially a cognitive faculty that aids the exercise of practical judgment.
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Or is your hearing faculty failing, too?
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Prior research suggests that community college faculty members are generally satisfied with their jobs.
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I seem to have the unhappy faculty of causing trouble wherever I go.
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What are the implications for job satisfaction, the retention of women faculty members, and their productivity?
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We get to invoke our faculties of reason to figure out how the world works.
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She faded away, losing her faculties as she went.
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Her ability to concentrate shows that her mental faculty is strong.
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As we age, some of our cognitive faculties may decline if not exercised regularly.
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The teacher emphasized the importance of nurturing our faculties of perception and reasoning.
Synonyms
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1.0
Skill or power to do something
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1.0
Physical or mental strength to do something
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3.0
Ability to learn, understand, and use knowledge to solve problems
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5.9
The ability to think clearly and understand difficult ideas
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6.4
A natural quality or ability someone is born with
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6.5
A separate part of the mind that does one kind of thinking
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6.1
An ability of the mind like memory or thinking
An ability a person has from birth
Antonyms
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3.5
A physical or mental condition that limits a person's movements, senses and daily activities
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Etymology
The word faculty comes from the Latin facultas and the root facere, which means 'to do' or 'to make'. It originally meant an 'ability' or power to do things, so someone's mental faculties are the mind's powers to think, remember, and feel.