faculty

Noun

Meaning

Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul.

Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.

Power; prerogative or attribute of office.

Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.

A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect.

The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

endowment ability staff gift talent department power capacity skill capability module bent competence aptitude dexterity
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Antonyms

need lack piano passenger ban inability
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Hypernyms

power body ability

Hyponyms

will language memory reason sense attention

Phrases with the word

faculty head imaginative faculty faculty psychology faculty for music faculty of music faculty of law

Derivatives

faculties

Examples

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. Joseph Addison

All media are extensions of some human faculty -- psychic or physical. Marshall McLuhan

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. Thornton Wilder

Nature, not content with denying to Mr - the faculty of thought, has endowed him with the faculty of writing. A. E. Housman

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. John Ciardi

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. William James

Close letter words and terms

facultise facultize facultized faculty for music faculty head faculty lounge