faculty vs understanding

faculty

noun
  • an ability, power, or skill. 

  • A licence to make alterations to a church. 

  • A division of a university. 

  • The members of a profession. 

  • The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff. 

  • An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority. 

understanding

noun
  • Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer. 

  • Opinion, judgement or outlook. 

  • An informal contract; mutual agreement. 

  • A reconciliation of differences. 

  • The act of one that understands or comprehends; comprehension; knowledge; discernment. 

  • Sympathy. 

adj
  • Showing compassion, tolerance, and forbearance. 

How often have the words faculty and understanding occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )