Faculty

Noun

 * 1) The scholarly staff at colleges or universities, as opposed to the students or support staff.
 * 2) A division of a  university (e.g. a Faculty of Science or Faculty of Medicine).
 * 3) An ability, skill, or power.
 * He lived until he reached the age of 90 with most of his faculties intact.

Adjectives for Faculty
contemplative; divine; unworn; ruling; bounded; healthful; bigoted; domestic; artful; visualizing; ready; rational; corporeal; biased; imaginative; perceptive; distinct; trained; reasoning; intellectual; remarkable; scientific; benumbed; integral; honorable; unimpaired; sterner; reciprocal; courageous; practised; departmentalized; balancing glorious; winged; natural; rare; unique primary; worldly; efficient; sublimest; wondrous; higher; dormant; aesthetic; elaborative; human; visual; imitative; cardinal; potential; awakened; penetrating; governing; administrative; spiritual; critical; cogitative; analytical; abnormal; treacherous; moral; finite; antipodal; comparative; common; creative; inventive; uncanny; obstinate; acute.

Synonyms for Faculty
ability, aptitude, capacity, gift, talent, skill, knack, bent, function, right, means, authority.

Antonyms for Faculty
incompetence, inability, ineptness, incapacity.

Related terms

 * facultative

Thesaurus
ability, ableness, absolute power, absolutism, adequacy, adroitness, appurtenance, aptitude, aptness, authority, authorization, bent, birthright, bump, caliber, capability, capableness, capacity, claim, cleverness, competence, competency, conjugal right, consciousness, constituted authority, delegated authority, demand, department, dexterity, discipline, dispensation, divine right, dower, dowry, droit, due, efficacy, efficiency, endowment, equipment, facility, faculties, fitness, flair, forte, function, genius, gift, inalienable right, indirect authority, inherent authority, instinct, intellectual gifts, intellectuals, interest, jus divinum, knack, lawful authority, leaning, legal authority, legitimacy, liberty, long suit, makings, members, metier, natural endowment, natural gift, natural right, nose, parts, penchant, permission, personnel, potential, power, powers, predilection, prerogative, prescription, presumptive right, pretense, pretension, privilege, proclivity, professorate, professordom, professoriate, professors, proficiency, propensity, proper claim, property, property right, qualification, quality, regality, right, rightful authority, royal prerogative, sanction, school, senses, skill, speciality, staff, strong flair, strong point, sufficiency, susceptibility, talent, talents, the goods, the say, the say-so, the stuff, title, turn, vested authority, vested interest, vested right, vicarious authority, what it takes, wits

Etymology
From faculte: <  faculte: <  facultas:, another form of facilitas: < facul:, another form of facilis:; see facile:.

Translations

 * Russian: профессорско-преподавательский состав


 * Swedish: kollegium, lärarkollegium


 * Arabic: (kullíyya)
 * Azeri:
 * Czech:
 * German:
 * Finnish: tiedekunta
 * Indonesian: fakultas
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian:


 * Polish: wydział
 * Romanian: facultate
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: fakultet
 * Turkish:


 * German: Vermögen, Fähigkeit, Begabung
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:


 * Polish: zdolność
 * Romanian: putință, abilitate, capacitate
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: färdighet, förmåga