different between faculty vs ideality

English

Etymology

From Middle English faculte (“power, property”), from Old French faculte, from Latin facultas (“capability, ability, skill, abundance, plenty, stock, goods, property; in Medieval Latin also a body of teachers”), another form of facilitas (“easiness, facility, etc.”), from facul, another form of facilis (“easy, facile”); see facile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fæ.k?l.ti/

Noun

faculty (plural faculties)

1. (chiefly US) The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
2. A division of a university.

3. Often in the plural: an ability, power, or skill.
4. An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
5. (Church of England) A licence to make alterations to a church.
6. The members of a profession.

Usage notes

In the sense of academic staff at a university, academic staff, teaching staff or simply staff are preferred in British English.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:faculty

Related terms

• facultative

Translations

Further reading

• faculty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• faculty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin idealitas (“ideality”), from Late Latin idealis (“ideal”); see ideal and -ity.

Noun

ideality (countable and uncountable, plural idealities)

1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being ideal.
2. (uncountable) The capacity to form deals of beauty or perfection.
3. The conceptive faculty.

Related terms

• idea
• ideal

Translations

Trivia

Aside from the proper noun Oceania, this is the shortest five-syllable word in the English language.

References

• ideality in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ideality in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• aedility, ædility