Faculty vs Cult - What's the difference?
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The scholarly staff at colleges or universities, as opposed to the students or support staff.
A division of a university (e.g. a Faculty of Science or Faculty of Medicine).
An ability, skill, or power, often plural.
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A group of people with a religious, philosophical or cultural identity sometimes viewed as a sect, often existing on the margins of society or exploitative towards its members.
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Devotion to a saint.
(lb) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
Of, or relating to a cult.
Enjoyed by a small, loyal group.
As nouns the difference between faculty and cult
is that faculty is the scholarly staff at colleges or universities, as opposed to the students or support staff while cult is a group of people with a religious, philosophical or cultural identity sometimes viewed as a sect, often existing on the margins of society or exploitative towards its members.As an adjective cult is
of, or relating to a cult.faculty
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(faculties)- I have used the notion of games so far as if it were familiar to most people. I think this is justified as everyone knows how to play some games. Accordingly, games serve admirably as models for the clarification of other, less well-understood, social-psychological phenomena. Yet the ability to follow rules, play games, and construct new games is a faculty not equally shared by all persons. [...]
- He lived until he reached the age of 90 with most of his faculties intact.
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(wikipedia cult)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
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* sectAdjective
(-)- a cult horror movie