MENTAL FACULTY

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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)