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

The narrator, purged of identifiers except for her yearning, her rational faculties, and her sense of unbelonging, is counterintuitively relatable—a portrait of rudimentary, universal humanity. — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 3 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

The bouba-kiki effect may have played a role in the emergence of language, along with many other cognitive faculties. — Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 19 Feb. 2026

Precisely because colleges and universities are insulated, because faculties get to choose their own colleagues, and because of tenure rules, campuses can become ideologically homogeneous and resistant to necessary change. — Andy Smarick, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2026