<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>plural faculties</li><li>an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.</li><li>Synonyms: skill, potential, knack, aptitude, capacity</li><li>one of the powers of the mind, as memory, reason, or speech: Though very sick, he is in full possession of all his faculties.</li><li>an inherent capability of the body: the faculties of sight and hearing.</li><li>exceptional ability or aptitude: a president with a faculty for management.</li><li>Education: the entire teaching and administrative force of a university, college, or school.</li><li>one of the departments of learning, as theology, medicine, or law, in a university.</li><li>the teaching body, sometimes with the students, in any of these departments.</li><li>the members of a learned profession: the medical faculty.</li><li>a power or privilege conferred by the state, a superior, etc.: The police were given the faculty to search the building.</li><li>Ecclesiastical: a dispensation, license, or authorization.</li></ul>