FACULTY

(ABILITY) [noun] [C] - any of our natural abilitiesComputers may one day be able to compensate for some of the missing faculties of disabled people.Even at the age of 100, she still had all her faculties.Is he in command/possession of all his (mental) faculties (= Can he still hear, speak, see and think clearly)?A faculty is also a special ability to do a particular thing.She has a faculty for inspiring confidence in people.A school's job is to sharpen pupils' critical faculties (= to teach them to think carefully about things using their judgment).