mental faculty

Questions about mental faculty

What does mental faculty mean?

mental faculty means "one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind".

What is another word for mental faculty?

Close synonyms include faculty, module. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mental faculty a common word?

mental faculty is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.