===Noun, plural -ties.===

=====an ability, natural or acquired=====

: for a particular kind of action

: ''[[a]] [[faculty]] [[for]] [[making]] [[friends]] [[easily]].

=====one of the powers of the mind, as memory, reason=====

: or speech

: ''[[Though]] [[very]] [[sick]], [[he]] [[is]] [[in]] [[full]] [[possession]] [[of]] [[all]] [[his]] [[faculties]].

=====an inherent capability of the body=====

: ''[[the]] [[faculties]] [[of]] [[sight]] [[and]] [[hearing]].

=====exceptional ability or aptitude=====

: ''[[a]] [[president]] [[with]] [[a]] [[faculty]] [[for]] [[management]].

=====Education .=====

:the entire teaching and administrative force of a university, college, or school.

:one of the departments of learning, as theology, medicine, or law, in a university.

:the teaching body, sometimes with the students, in any of these departments.

=====the members of a learned profession=====

: ''[[the]] [[medical]] [[faculty]].

=====a power or privilege conferred by the state, a superior=====

: etc.

: ''[[The]] [[police]] [[were]] [[given]] [[the]] [[faculty]] [[to]] [[search]] [[the]] [[building]].

=====Ecclesiastical . a dispensation, license=====

: or authorization.

===Antonyms===

=====noun=====

:[[inability]] , [[incompetence]] , [[ineptness]] , [[lack]] , [[need]] , [[students]]

===Synonyms===

=====noun=====

:[[adroitness]] , [[aptitude]] , [[aptness]] , [[bent]] , [[capability]] , [[capacity]] , [[cleverness]] , [[dexterity]] , [[facility]] , [[flair]] , [[forte]] , [[genius]] , [[gift]] , [[instinct]] , [[intelligence]] , [[knack]] , [[knowing way around]] , [[leaning]] , [[nose *]] , [[peculiarity]] , [[penchant]] , [[pistol *]] , [[power]] , [[predilection]] , [[proclivity]] , [[propensity]] , [[property]] , [[quality]] , [[readiness]] , [[reason]] , [[right stuff *]] , [[sense]] , [[strength]] , [[talent]] , [[turn]] , [[what it takes]] , [[witsnotes:a facility is a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry or a skillful performance or ability without difficulty; faculty is one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind or the body of teachers and administrators at a school]] , [[academics]] , [[advisers]] , [[body]] , [[clinic]] , [[college]] , [[corps]] , [[department]] , [[employees]] , [[institute]] , [[instructors]] , [[lecturers]] , [[literati]] , [[mentors]] , [[organization]] , [[pedagogues]] , [[personnel]] , [[professorate]] , [[professors]] , [[profs]] , [[researchers]] , [[scholars]] , [[society]] , [[staff]] , [[tutors]] , [[university]] , [[workersnotes:a facility is a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry or a skillful performance or ability without difficulty; faculty is one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind or the body of teachers and administrators at a school]] , [[head]] , [[competence]] , [[competency]] , [[might]] , [[authority]] , [[mandate]] , [[right]] , [[ability]] , [[endowment]] , [[skill]] , [[skill ingenuity]] , [[wits]]