Synonyms of faculties

faculties

noun

plural of faculty

1

as in powers

a natural ability of the mind or body

although they are well into their 80s, the mental faculties of this couple are as sharp as ever

Synonyms & Similar Words

• powers
• capabilities
• capacities
• instincts
• aptitudes
• functions
• talents
• endowments
• gifts
• knacks
• flairs
• geniuses

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• incapacities
• inabilities
• incapabilities
• inaptitudes

2

as in talents

a special and usually inborn ability

even when he was still at a young age, John Singleton Copley's artistic faculties were readily recognizable

Synonyms & Similar Words

• talents
• aptitudes
• gifts
• knacks
• endowments
• flairs
• geniuses
• bents
• tendencies
• eyes
• minds
• skills
• affinities
• ears
• facilities
• inclinations
• capacities
• impulses
• dispositions
• feels
• instincts
• predispositions
• proclivities
• powers
• heads
• propensities
• capabilities
• predilections
• biases
• competences
• leanings
• noses
• potentials
• ways
• partialities
• habitudes
• proficiencies
• penchants
• touches
• specialties
• specialities
• hangs
• turns
• specialisms
• fortes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• disabilities
• handicaps
• incapacities
• weaknesses
• inabilities
• shortcomings

3

as in abilities

the physical or mental power to do something

the belief that if someone loses their sight, all of their other physical faculties are heightened

Synonyms & Similar Words

• abilities
• capacities
• aptitudes
• capabilities
• talents
• skills
• competencies
• competences
• facilities
• reasons
• endowments
• equipments
• instincts
• gifts
• intelligences
• hands
• resources
• knacks
• dexterities
• understandings
• potencies
• addresses
• influences
• prowesses
• gray matters
• means
• mights
• adequacies
• staying powers
• stuff
• puissances
• forms
• wherewithals
• kens

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• incapacities
• disabilities
• inabilities
• incapabilities
• weaknesses
• impotences
• deficiencies
• incompetencies
• inadequacies
• ineptitudes
• incompetences
• impairments
• debilitations
• paralyses
• inefficacies
• ineffectualities
• disablements
• incapacitations

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of faculties

By continually altering reality, a government can disable the faculties of judgment and action on which political freedom depends. — David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

Prosecutors, however, may also prove intoxication by demonstrating that a person did not have the normal use of his mental or physical faculties. — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Aug. 2026

The association, with membership in faculties at most universities, will work to identify students who could benefit from monetary help to finish their degrees, Farmer said. — Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2026

The Chicago Teachers Union voted by a 2-1 ratio to accept a plan to integrate faculties in the city’s public schools. — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026

Your intuitive faculties are on point today as the sun coordinates with Neptune. — Usa Today, USA Today, 24 May 2026

The researchers also announced a contest with a $200,000 prize pool on the popular machine learning competition site Kaggle for outside researchers to help build evaluations for the five cognitive faculties where existing benchmark tests are weakest. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2026

Strange occurrences quickly destabilize the group, with the writer becoming increasingly unhinged, convinced the location has an inexplicable hold over her creative faculties. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Mar. 2026

Around the same time, leaders at KPMG Peat Marwick Foundation and Citibank launched a series of meetings with other corporate and academic leaders to address diversifying business school faculties. — CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026