English > faculty: 2 senses > noun 1, cognitionMeaning | One of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind. |
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Synonyms | mental faculty, module |
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Narrower | attention | The faculty or power of mental concentration |
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language, speech | The mental faculty or power of vocal communication |
memory, retention, retentiveness, retentivity | The power of retaining and recalling past experience |
reason, understanding, intellect | The capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination |
sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty | The faculty through which the external world is apprehended |
volition, will | The capability of conscious choice and decision and intention |
Broader | ability, power | possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done |
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Spanish | facultad |
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Catalan | facultat |
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Adjectives | facultative | of or relating to the mental faculties |
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