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MENTAL FACULTY
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
One of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
Synonyms:
faculty; mental faculty; module
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("mental faculty" is a kind of...):
ability; power (possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mental faculty"):
attention (the faculty or power of mental concentration)
language; speech (the mental faculty or power of vocal communication)
memory; retention; retentiveness; retentivity (the power of retaining and recalling past experience)
intellect; reason; understanding (the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination)
sensation; sense; sensory faculty; sentience; sentiency (the faculty through which the external world is apprehended)
volition; will (the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention)
