faculty
Definition of faculty:
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part of speech: noun
Facility or power to act; an original power of the mind; personal quality or endowment; right, authority, or privilege to act; license; a body of men to whom any privilege is granted; the professors constituting a department in a university; the members of a profession.
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part of speech: noun
The power of doing anything; a power or capacity of the mind; ability; skill derived from practice; the professors of a department in a university; an ecclesiastical dispensation; the faculty, the medical profession; faculty of advocates, in Scot., the members of the bar, taken collectively.
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Common misspellings:
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- facult (0.7%)
- facultiy (0.7%)
- facalty (4.3%)
- facluty (2.0%)
- facilty (3.3%)
- facualty (2.3%)
- falcuty (1.7%)
- facuilty (1.0%)
- faciulty (0.7%)
- facuty (0.7%)
- factulty (1.3%)
- faculuty (1.0%)
- falculty (9.0%)
- faculity (27.4%)
- faciltiy (0.7%)
- facutly (31.8%)
- faculy (0.7%)
- faclity (2.0%)
- fulty (0.3%)
- facltyr (0.3%)
- factly (0.3%)
- fauclty (2.3%)
- facality (0.7%)
- factuly (1.0%)
- faluty (0.3%)
- facity (0.3%)
- caculty (0.7%)
- faclulty (1.0%)
- facuklty (0.7%)
- facultry (0.7%)
Usage examples for faculty:
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The constancy of the laws of nature, or the certainty with which we may expect the same effects from the same causes, is the foundation of the faculty of reason.
"An Essay on the Principle of Population" – Thomas Malthus -
She had the faculty of turning everything into play.
"'Lizbeth of the Dale" – Marian Keith
