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Intellect synonyms and antonyms

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imagination (related)
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creative-power (related)
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creative-imagination (related)
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reason
A motive for an action or a determination.
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cognitive
Having a basis in or reducible to empirical factual knowledge.
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ability (related)
(Countable) A skill or competence in doing; mental power; talent; aptitude. [First attested in the early 17 th century.]
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understanding
(Countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
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comprehension
The knowledge that is acquired in this way.
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brain
By analogy with a human brain, the part of a machine or computer that performs calculations.
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mentality
Mentality is defined as the ability to think, or to a mental attitude.
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judgment (related)
An opinion or estimate formed after consideration or deliberation, especially a formal or authoritative decision:
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mind (related)
(Philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
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noesis
The consciousness side to duality of noesis and noema.
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thoughts (related)
Plural form of thought
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intuition (related)
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eloquence (related)
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virtue (related)
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cleverness (related)
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innate (related)
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consciousness (related)
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ego (related)
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sagacity (related)
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individuality (related)
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rationalize
Rationalize is to attempt to justify something or to make excuses for bad behavior or an unpleasant outcome.
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cerebral
The definition of cerebral is something having to do with the brain.
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epistemological
Of or pertaining to knowing or cognizing, as a mental activity.
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gnostic
Alternative capitalization of Gnostic.
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highbrow
(US, colloquial) Intellectually stimulating, highly cultured.
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intelligential
Of or pertaining to the intelligence
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noetic
Originating in or apprehended by reason.
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odyssean
Of or pertaining to the Odyssey (Ancient Greek epic poem by Homer).
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rational
Showing reason; not foolish or silly; sensible
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sagacious
The definition of sagacious is someone with sound judgment.
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sophic
(Obsolete) Teaching wisdom.
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acquaintance
(Uncountable) A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy
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acumen
The definition of acumen is the ability to quickly and accurately understand and deal with a situation or choice.
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cognition
(Countable) A result of a cognitive process.
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entelechy
In some philosophical systems, a vital force that directs an organism toward self-fulfillment.
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information
As contrasted with data, knowledge which is gathered as a result of processing data. [from 20th c.]
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intellectuality
The characteristic of being intellectual.
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intelligence
The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge:
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luminosity
The condition or quality of being luminous.
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perspicacity
The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly.
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profundity
Great intellectual insight or understanding:
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sapience
The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.
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smarts
(Informal, chiefly US) intelligence; smartness
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thinker
An intellectual, such as a philosopher or theologian.
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wit
The definition of wit is good sense, or powers of thinking, or a quick sense of humor.
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intellectualize
To make intellectual; give an intellectual quality to
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emotion (antonym)
Any specific feeling; any of various complex reactions with both mental and physical manifestations, as love, hate, fear, anger, etc.
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ignorance (antonym)
The definition of ignorance is being unaware, uneducated or unknowledgeable.
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The faculty of thinking, reasoning, and acquiring and applying knowledge
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intellectual
An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
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human-nature (related)
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sense
A sense is defined as a way that the body perceives external stimuli, or is an awareness or feeling about something.
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dianoetic
Pertaining to reason or thinking; intellectual.
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epistemic
The definition of epistemic is related to knowledge or knowing.
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genius
The definition of a genius is someone with an amazing mental or creative ability.
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rationality
A rational belief or practice.
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  • As her intellect grew she became less dependent on this sense.

  • The intellect of the age thus no longer exhibited itself as a unity.

  • Thus in the perfection of man, as in the nature of God, will and intellect must be united.

  • I don't understand how a man of his immense intellect can fail to see what is as clear as day, and can go so far astray.

  • While imprisoned in the shed Pierre had learned not with his intellect but with his whole being, by life itself, that man is created for happiness, that happiness is within him, in the satisfaction of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity.

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