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Antonyms for faculties
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fak-uhl-tee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæk əl ti |
Definition of faculties
Origin :- early 16c., "powers or properties of one's self," also "physical functions;" plural of faculty.
- noun ability, skill
- noun teachers in educational institution
- Now there was something so compelling about her tone that he bent all his faculties to the task.
- Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various
- We have no idea of the Supreme Being but what we learn from reflection on our own faculties.
- Extract from : « An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding » by David Hume
- When he recovered his faculties his first sensation was one of great cold.
- Extract from : « The Slave Of The Lamp » by Henry Seton Merriman
- The subject abstracted their attention, and engrossed all their faculties.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- Men are not equal, either in their faculties or in their requirements.
- Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
- But where the mind is too deeply interested, there it is that the faculties are most treacherous.
- Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
- It was some minutes before his faculties took in the meaning of his surroundings.
- Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
- What would any of us have been, if our fathers hadn't drawed our faculties out of us?
- Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
- What would my boy Joe have been, if I hadn't drawed his faculties out of him?
- Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
- The thundering applause that greeted me nearly overpowered all my faculties.
- Extract from : « Beaux and Belles of England » by Mary Robinson
Synonyms for faculties
- academics
- adroitness
- advisers
- aptitude
- aptness
- bent
- body
- capability
- capacity
- cleverness
- clinic
- college
- corps
- department
- dexterity
- employees
- facility
- flair
- forte
- genius
- gift
- instinct
- institute
- instructors
- intelligence
- knack
- knowing way around
- leaning
- lecturers
- literati
- mentors
- nose
- organization
- peculiarity
- pedagogues
- penchant
- personnel
- pistol
- power
- predilection
- proclivity
- professorate
- professors
- profs
- propensity
- property
- quality
- readiness
- reason
- researchers
- right stuff
- scholars
- sense
- society
- staff
- strength
- talent
- turn
- tutors
- university
- what it takes
- wits
- workers
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