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Definition of faculty

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Faculty (n.) 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..

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Gift :: Gift (v. t.) To endow with some power or faculty.

Poetry :: Poetry (n.) The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.

Attention :: Attention (n.) The act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; exclusive or special consideration; earnest consideration, thought, or regard; obedient or affectionate heed; the supposed power or faculty of attending..

Alimentiveness :: Alimentiveness (n.) The instinct or faculty of appetite for food.

Faculty :: Faculty (n.) 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..

Discrimination :: Discrimination (n.) The quality of being discriminating; faculty of nicely distinguishing; acute discernment; as, to show great discrimination in the choice of means..

Tact :: Tact (n.) Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.

Vision :: Vision (v.) The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve..

Comparison :: Comparison (n.) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.

Judgment :: Judgment (v. i.) That power or faculty by which knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2.

Fancy :: Fancy (n.) The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination..

Hear :: Hear (v. i.) To have the sense or faculty of perceiving sound.

Power :: Power (n.) Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power..

Dianoetic :: Dianoetic (a.) Pertaining to the discursive faculty, its acts or products..

Part :: Part (n.) A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; -- usually in the plural with a collective sense.

Percipiency :: Percipiency (n.) The faculty, act or power of perceiving; perception..

Imagination :: Imagination (n.) A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion.

Taste :: Taste (n.) The power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order, congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes excellence, particularly in the fine arts and belles-letters; critical judgment; discernment..

Poesy :: Poesy (n.) The art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty; as, the heavenly gift of poesy..

Ambidextrous :: Ambidextrous (a.) Having the faculty of using both hands with equal ease.