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Intellectual interpretation, as of the significance of an event or the conclusions reached by a group:
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  1. Intellectual interpretation, as of the significance of an event or the conclusions reached by a group:
  2. Natural understanding or intelligence, especially in practical matters:
  3. A perception or feeling produced by a stimulus; sensation:
understanding
(Countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.
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  1. (Countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.
  2. The power or ability to think, learn, judge, etc.; intelligence; sense
  3. (Countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
comprehension
Understanding or knowledge that results from this
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  1. Understanding or knowledge that results from this
  2. The capacity for understanding ideas, facts, etc.
  3. Thorough understanding
ability
Skill, expertness, or talent
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  1. Skill, expertness, or talent
  2. The quality of being able to do something, especially the physical, mental, financial, or legal power to accomplish something.
  3. The quality of being suitable for or receptive to a specified treatment:
intelligence
The persons or agency employed at gathering it
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  1. The persons or agency employed at gathering it
  2. (--- Psychol.) Measured success in using these abilities to perform certain tasks
  3. The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge:
brain
Intellectual ability; intellect:
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  1. Intellectual ability; intellect:
  2. A functionally similar portion of the invertebrate nervous system.
  3. The part of the nervous system in vertebrates that is enclosed within the skull, is connected with the spinal cord, and is composed of gray matter and white matter. It is the control center of the central nervous system, receiving sensory impulses from the rest of the body and transmitting motor impulses for the regulation of voluntary movement. The brain also contains the centers of consciousness, thought, language, memory, and emotion.
mentality
Mental capacity, power, or activity; mind
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  1. Mental capacity, power, or activity; mind
  2. A mindset; a way of thinking.
  3. The sum of a person's intellectual capabilities or endowment.
brain
A bundle of nerves in many invertebrate animals that is similar to the vertebrate brain in function and position.
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  1. A bundle of nerves in many invertebrate animals that is similar to the vertebrate brain in function and position.
  2. Exceptional intellectual ability; intelligence:
  3. The portion of the vertebrate central nervous system that is enclosed within the cranium, continuous with the spinal cord, and composed of gray matter and white matter. It is the primary center for the regulation and control of bodily activities, receiving and interpreting sensory impulses, and transmitting information to the muscles and body organs. In humans, it is also the seat of consciousness, thought, memory, and emotion.
brainpower
Mental ability; intelligence.
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  1. Mental ability; intelligence.
  2. Mental ability; intellectual power
  3. Intelligent people considered as a group.
intelligence
(--- Psychol.) Measured success in using these abilities to perform certain tasks
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  1. (--- Psychol.) Measured success in using these abilities to perform certain tasks
  2. The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge:
  3. Generally, any degree of keenness of mind, cleverness, shrewdness, etc.
mentality
A mindset; a way of thinking.
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  1. A mindset; a way of thinking.
  2. Mental attitude or outlook; state of mind
  3. Cast or turn of mind:
mind
The part or faculty of a person by which one feels, perceives, thinks, remembers, desires, and imagines:
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  1. The part or faculty of a person by which one feels, perceives, thinks, remembers, desires, and imagines:
  2. Focus of thought; attention:
  3. Individual consciousness, memory, or recollection:
understanding
A disposition to appreciate or share the feelings and thoughts of others; sympathy:
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  1. A disposition to appreciate or share the feelings and thoughts of others; sympathy:
  2. (Countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
  3. The power or ability to think, learn, judge, etc.; intelligence; sense
wit
A person noted for this ability, especially in conversation:
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  1. A person noted for this ability, especially in conversation:
  2. Alert, practical intelligence; good sense
  3. (Obs.) The mind
brain
Intellectual ability; intellect:
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  1. Intellectual ability; intellect:
  2. Exceptional intellectual ability; intelligence:
  3. The portion of the vertebrate central nervous system that is enclosed within the cranium, continuous with the spinal cord, and composed of gray matter and white matter. It is the primary center for the regulation and control of bodily activities, receiving and interpreting sensory impulses, and transmitting information to the muscles and body organs. In humans, it is also the seat of consciousness, thought, memory, and emotion.
intellectual
A member of the intelligentsia
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  1. A member of the intelligentsia
  2. A person with intellectual interests or tastes
  3. A person engaged in intellectual work
mind
The part or faculty of a person by which one feels, perceives, thinks, remembers, desires, and imagines:
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  1. The part or faculty of a person by which one feels, perceives, thinks, remembers, desires, and imagines:
  2. Focus of thought; attention:
  3. Opinion or sentiment:
thinker
One who thinks or reasons in a certain way:
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  1. One who thinks or reasons in a certain way:
Find another word for intellect. In this page you can discover 25 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for intellect, like: sense, thoughts, understanding, comprehension, ability, intelligence, brain, mentality, acumen, judgment and mind.

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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.

  • The higher the human intellect rises in the discovery of these purposes, the more obvious it becomes, that the ultimate purpose is beyond our comprehension.

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

  • "They pretend," as I hear, "that the verses of Kabir have four different senses; illusion, spirit, intellect, and the exoteric doctrine of the Vedas"; but in this part of the world it is considered a ground for complaint if a man's writings admit of more than one interpretation.

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