faculty

noun (plural faculties)

• 1an inherent mental or physical power:her critical faculties the faculty of sight
• an aptitude for doing something:his faculty for taking the initiative

• 2a group of university departments concerned with a major division of knowledge:the Faculty of Arts the law faculty
• [in singular] the teaching or research staff of a group of university departments, or (North American) of a university or college, viewed as a body: there were then no tenured women on the faculty
• dated the members of a particular profession, especially medicine, considered collectively.

• 3a licence or authorization from a Church authority: the vicar introduced certain ornaments without the necessary faculty to do so