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 latest frontier model, with apparent human-level faculties, had gone rogue – displaying dangerous, even devious online behaviors. — Michael Serazio, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026

The search for diversity While college faculties have become more racially diverse since the 1970s, the diversification of the faculty has not kept pace with changes in the college student population. — Rodney Coates, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2026

The prosecution’s argument Prosecutors argued Clancy was in full control of her faculties at the time of the killings and deliberately planned the murders. — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026

Rather than focusing on the mom's faculties, the advisor asked how each family member viewed success across different time horizons. — Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2026

British universities have been working to hire more academics from racial and ethnic minority backgrounds so that their faculties better reflect the broader society. — ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026

Writing, the piece notes, helps develop all sorts of cognitive faculties, including building our working memory, executive planning skills, and our metacognition, or the ability to be aware of your own thinking. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 19 Aug. 2026

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