Intellect

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The ability to learn and reason; the capacity for knowledge and understanding.
  • n. The ability to think abstractly or profoundly. See Synonyms at mind.
  • n. A person of great intellectual ability.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding (uncountable)
  • n. the capacity of that faculty (in a particular person) (uncountable)
  • n. a person who has that faculty to a great degree
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The part or faculty of the human mind by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.
  • n. The capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; mental capacity.
  • n. A particular mind, especially a person of high intelligence.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The understanding; the sum of all the cognitive faculties except sense, or except sense and imagination.
  • n. Mind collectively; current or collective intelligence: as, the intellect of the time.
  • n. plural Wits; senses; mind: as, disordered in his intellects.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. knowledge and intellectual ability
  • n. a person who uses the mind creatively
  • n. the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
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    intelligence    thinker    mind   
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    intelligence    genius    imagination    courage    wit