faculty vs retentiveness

retentiveness vs faculty

faculty and retentiveness both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
faculty	Yes	No	No	No
retentiveness	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, retentiveness is a hyponym of faculty; that is, retentiveness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than faculty:

faculty: one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
retentiveness: the power of retaining and recalling past experience

Other hyponyms of faculty include attention, language, speech, memory, retention, retentivity, intellect, reason, understanding, sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency, volition, will.

faculty (noun)	retentiveness (noun)
one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind	the property of retaining possessions that have been acquired
the body of teachers and administrators at a school	the power of retaining liquid
	the power of retaining and recalling past experience

Difference between faculty and retentiveness

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