retentiveness vs faculty

retentiveness and faculty both are nouns.

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

As nouns, faculty is a hypernym of retentiveness; that is, faculty is a word with a broader meaning than retentiveness:

Other hypernyms of retentiveness include mental faculty, module.

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