The front parts of human or animal heads, including eyes, nose, and mouth. Can also mean surfaces or aspects of objects or situations.
From Old French 'face' and Latin 'facies' meaning 'form, appearance, or countenance'. The word evolved from describing physical appearance to metaphorical uses like 'face of a mountain' or 'face the facts'.
Humans are uniquely adapted to recognize faces - we have specialized brain regions dedicated to facial recognition and can distinguish thousands of individual faces. Interestingly, we also see faces in inanimate objects (pareidolia), like the 'man in the moon', showing how central faces are to human perception and cognition.
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