Results for faculty

Definitions of faculty:

part of speech: noun

The power of doing anything; a power or capacity of the mind; ability; skill derived from practice; the professors of a department in a university; an ecclesiastical dispensation; the faculty, the medical profession; faculty of advocates, in Scot., the members of the bar, taken collectively.

part of speech: noun

Facility or power to act; an original power of the mind; personal quality or endowment; right, authority, or privilege to act; license; a body of men to whom any privilege is granted; the professors constituting a department in a university; the members of a profession.

Usage examples for faculty:

• In trying to account to myself for my own sensations, I could only put it that one felt in the man a complete absence of the sympathetic faculty "The Woman in Black", Edmund Clerihew Bentley

• Pride was the one developed faculty of Evan's nature. "The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith", George Meredith