Faculty
Faculty noun - A special and usually inborn ability.
Usage example: even when he was still at a young age, John Singleton Copley's artistic faculties were readily recognizable
Mind
Mind noun - The part of a person that feels, thinks, perceives, wills, and especially reasons.
Faculty and mind are semantically related in intelligence topic. Sometimes you can use "Faculty" instead a noun "Mind".
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Both words in one sentence
- There's a reason why she usually avoids working in the faculty room, or told Usami-sensei that she doesn't mind paying Usami to buy her a carton or cigarettes.
Source: Must Have Nicotine - It works — Carrie is getting laughed at by hundreds of her classmates and faculty, and she's collapsing into tears on what should be the happiest night of her life... and then everybody finds out why it's not wise to laugh at somebody who can kill hundreds of people with her mind.
Source: Gone Horribly Right / Literature -
The football coach played by Robert Patrick in The Faculty, at least before he gets mind-controlled by aliens.
Source: Drill Sergeant Nasty
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Mind and Faculty. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/faculty/mind
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Mind or Faculty. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/faculty/mind.
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