Definition of faculty

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Faculty (n.) Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation..

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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..
Push :: Push (n.) The faculty of overcoming obstacles; aggressive energy; as, he has push, or he has no push..
Outwit :: Outwit (n.) The faculty of acquiring wisdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit..
Felicity :: Felicity (n.) A pleasing faculty or accomplishment; as, felicity in painting portraits, or in writing or talking..
Agency :: Agency (n.) The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.
Rational :: Rational (a.) Having reason, or the faculty of reasoning; endowed with reason or understanding; reasoning..
Comparison :: Comparison (n.) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
Imagination :: Imagination (n.) A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion.
Intelligent :: Intelligent (a.) Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being..
Moderate :: Moderate (a.) Limited as to the degree in which a quality, principle, or faculty appears; as, an infusion of moderate strength; a man of moderate abilities..
Semiimute :: Semiimute (a.) Having the faculty of speech but imperfectly developed or partially lost.
Reason :: Reason (n.) The faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense, imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires. Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional faculty. Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called the discursive o
Locality :: Locality (n.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.
Style :: Style (v. t.) Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written; especially, such use of language in the expression of thought as exhibits the spirit and faculty of an artist; choice or arrangement of words in discourse; rhetorical expression..
Smell :: Smell (v. t.) The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense.
Agile :: Agile (a.) Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue..
Strong :: Strong (superl.) Having great force, vigor, power, or the like, as the mind, intellect, or any faculty; as, a man of a strong mind, memory, judgment, or imagination..
Discrimination :: Discrimination (n.) The quality of being discriminating; faculty of nicely distinguishing; acute discernment; as, to show great discrimination in the choice of means..
Appetitive :: Appetitive (a.) Having the quality of desiring gratification; as, appetitive power or faculty..
Wound :: Wound (n.) Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc..
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