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Definition of Mental faculty
1. Noun. One of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind.
Generic synonyms: Ability, Power
Specialized synonyms: Attention, Language, Speech, Memory, Retention, Retentiveness, Retentivity, Intellect, Reason, Understanding, Sensation, Sense, Sensory Faculty, Sentience, Sentiency, Volition, Will
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mental Faculty
Literary usage of Mental faculty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brain and Personality: Or, the Physical Relations of the Brain to the Mind by William Hanna Thomson (1906)
"... WEIGHT AND mental faculty WHAT we have arrived at so far is that the gray
matter is the physical basis of the mind. No one now disputes this. ..."
2. Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory: A Treatise of the Phenomena, Laws by George Trumbull Ladd (1894)
"Neither can retention, ' considered as a state or activity of " the unconscious,"
be regarded as mental faculty ; and the same thing is true of the merely ..."
3. Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory: A Treatise of the Phenomena, Laws by George Trumbull Ladd (1904)
"Neither can retention, ' considered as a state or activity of "the unconscious,"
be regarded as mental faculty ; and the same thing is true of the merely ..."
4. Patentable Invention by Edward Sabine Renwick (1893)
"Determination of Invention by Assumption of the-' Action of a Peculiar Mental
Faculty a mere Opinion. To the scientific mechanic the procedure of ..."
5. In the School-room: Or, Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by John Seely Hart (1872)
"ATTENTION AS A mental faculty, AND AS A MEANS OF MENTAL CULTURE.* illustrations
which first led to a satisfactory elu- cidation of the subject, ..."
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