Faculty vs Faulty - What's the difference?
faculty | faulty |
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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Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.
(obsolete) At fault, to blame; guilty.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iv:
As a noun faculty
is the scholarly staff at colleges or universities, as opposed to the students or support staff.As an adjective faulty is
having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.faculty
English
Noun
(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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English
Adjective
(er)- They replaced the faulty wiring and it has worked fine ever since.
- I don't think you can infer that from the premise. It's a faulty argument.
- Her faultie Handmayd, which that bale did breede, / Confest, how Philemon her wrought to chaunge her weede.