mental faculty vs retentivity

retentivity vs mental faculty

mental faculty and retentivity both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mental faculty	Yes	No	No	No
retentivity	Yes	No	No	No

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

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

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

mental faculty (noun)	retentivity (noun)
one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind	the power of retaining liquid
	the property of retaining possessions that have been acquired
	the power of retaining and recalling past experience

Difference between mental faculty and retentivity

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