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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Ingenious :: Ingenious (a.) Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations; as, an ingenious author, mechanic..
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..
Dean :: Dean (n.) The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.
Reason :: Reason (n.) Due exercise of the reasoning faculty; accordance with, or that which is accordant with and ratified by, the mind rightly exercised; right intellectual judgment; clear and fair deductions from true principles; that which is dictated or supported by the common sense of mankind; right conduct; right; propriety; justice..
Percipiency :: Percipiency (n.) The faculty, act or power of perceiving; perception..
Judicative :: "Judicative (a.) Having power to judge; judicial; as, the judicative faculty..
Conceit :: Conceit (n.) Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit..
Beauty :: Beauty (n.) An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the aesthetic faculty, or the moral sense..
Conception :: Conception (n.) The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception.
Acumen :: Acumen (n.) Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.
Bletonism :: Bletonism (n.) The supposed faculty of perceiving subterraneous springs and currents by sensation; -- so called from one Bleton, of France..
Principle :: Principle (n.) An original faculty or endowment.
Mind :: Mind (v.) The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritual nature; the soul; -- often in distinction from the body..
Exert :: Exert (v. t.) To put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to put in vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body, limbs, faculties, or imagination; to exert the mind or the voice..
Tasting :: Tasting (n.) The act of perceiving or tasting by the organs of taste; the faculty or sense by which we perceive or distinguish savors.
Animadversal :: Animadversal (n.) The faculty of perceiving; a percipient.
Passion :: Passion (n.) The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath
Ambidexterity :: Ambidexterity (n.) The quality of being ambidextrous; the faculty of using both hands with equal facility.
Perception :: Perception (n.) The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from conception..
Memory :: Memory (n.) The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events..
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