Faculty and Understanding

Faculty

Faculty noun - The physical or mental power to do something.

Usage example: the belief that if someone loses their sight, all of their other physical faculties are heightened

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Understanding and faculty are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Understanding" instead a noun "Faculty".

Understanding noun - The capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination.

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Faculty and understanding are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Faculty" instead a noun "Understanding".

human	human faculty	human understanding
full	full faculty	full understanding
current	current faculty	current understanding
poor	poor faculty	poor understanding
Other adjectives: logical, entire.

The faculty deliberately made the course so difficult not simply as a weeder but to give students a new understanding of depth.

Source: Nintendo Hard / Non Video Game Examples

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