FACULTIES Synonyms: 91 Similar and Opposite Words

faculties

noun

plural of faculty

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

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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

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the physical or mental power to do something the belief that if someone loses their sight, all of their other physical faculties are heightened

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Recent Examples of faculties 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 Instead, the attorney claimed, Williams' faculties were impacted by alcohol addiction. —

Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 9 Feb. 2026 For the past fifty years, the predominant theory held that our capacity to parse complicated syntax rested on specialized, innate faculties. —

Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 9 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 Frescoes by Pellegrino Tibaldi depict the liberal arts and the four faculties of medieval knowledge, situating the library within the intellectual framework of its era. —

Navya Verma, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2026

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Noun

By design Congress is supposed to serve as a check on the executive branch through budgetary, legislative and oversight powers.

— Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2026
The step aims to reduce the country’s dependence on foreign powers for high-thrust engines.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026