mental faculty

Noun

Meaning

one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

mind faculty module cephalon

Hypernyms

power ability

Hyponyms

will language sense memory reason speech

Examples

The reluctance to recognize the Will as a separate, autonomous mental faculty finally ceded during the long centuries of Christian philosophy... Hannah Arendt

Although the task of cognitive neuroscience is to describe how the brain creates the mind, historically it has progressed by investigating how a certain area of the brain supports a given mental faculty. Source: Internet

The intuitionists believed that aesthetic experience was disclosed by a single mental faculty of some kind. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

mental exhaustion mental facility mental faculties mental fallacy mental fatigue mental fitness