mental faculties
plural noun
: ability to think clearly
It was sad to see that his mental faculties had begun to fail.
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The Illinois governor also dabbled in popular Democratic speculation that Trump’s mental faculties were slipping, replicating Republican attacks against former President Joe Biden’s cognitive state.
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Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 26 Aug. 2025
Those youths who are said to be digital natives are possibly undercutting their own mental faculties due to a reliance on the Internet.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Meanwhile, a new book by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson—Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again—suggests Biden had diminished mental faculties that aides concealed from the public.
—Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
Aristotle argued that some people, such as those with mental impairments, were inferior to those with greater mental faculties.
—Monti Datta, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
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Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 26 Aug. 2025
Those youths who are said to be digital natives are possibly undercutting their own mental faculties due to a reliance on the Internet.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Meanwhile, a new book by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson—Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again—suggests Biden had diminished mental faculties that aides concealed from the public.
—Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
Aristotle argued that some people, such as those with mental impairments, were inferior to those with greater mental faculties.
—Monti Datta, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for mental faculties
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“Mental faculties.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mental%20faculties. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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