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mental faculty

n. one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind [syn: faculty, module]

Usage examples of "mental faculty".

When we do perceive through our sense organs, we use this same inward mental faculty as a part of the inward process of experience.

This mental faculty is known as a sensory indriya and there are five of them, relating to our five outward senses.

Within ten days the man had recovered speech and mental faculty and, though yet confined to a Utter and under direct care of the Royal Surgeon, was able not only at last to speak but to express his fervent desire to do so.

I strained every bit of the poor mental faculty I had to sense something beyond sight.

He arched his neck, as though to stretch his mental faculty past the cobwebs that angry chemical spiders were weaving at a furious pace.