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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

Sentient :: Sentient (a.) Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues..

Understanding :: Understanding (n.) Specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason..

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..

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..

Secretiveness :: Secretiveness (n.) The faculty or propensity which impels to reserve, secrecy, or concealment..

Ideation :: Ideation (n.) The faculty or capacity of the mind for forming ideas; the exercise of this capacity; the act of the mind by which objects of sense are apprehended and retained as objects of thought.

Wit :: Wit (v.) A mental faculty, or power of the mind; -- used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like..

Risible :: Risible (a.) Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh.

Percipient :: Percipient (a.) Having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a percipient being..

Retrospection :: Retrospection (n.) The act, or the faculty, of looking back on things past..

Contrivance :: Contrivance (n.) The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning..

Semiimute :: Semiimute (a.) Having the faculty of speech but imperfectly developed or partially lost.

Understanding :: Understanding (n.) The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends..

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..

Conscious :: Conscious (a.) Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations.

Locality :: Locality (n.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.

Memory :: Memory (n.) The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events..

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, reptile is an abstract or general name..

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

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