English > faculty: 2 senses > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | One of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind. |
|---|
| Synonyms | mental faculty, module |
|---|
| Narrower | attention | The faculty or power of mental concentration |
|---|
| 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 |
|---|
| Spanish | facultad |
|---|
| Catalan | facultat |
|---|
| Adjectives | facultative | of or relating to the mental faculties |
|---|
