mental faculty
- singular of mental faculties.
Example Sentences
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Reason is the mental faculty that takes sensory data and orders it into thoughts and ideas.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
The notion that we have some mental faculty called “reason” that functions independently of our needs, desires, anxieties, and superstitions is, well, Platonic.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 27, 2018
Which mental faculty are you using to make this decision?
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 27, 2018
He said he was trying to demonstrate he had the mental faculty to speak in a different language.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 10, 2018
Things that had been so familiar just days before my last visit to Stuyvesant became strange, and I felt I was losing the mental faculty for making sense of the world around me.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
