non-inˈtelligence [non- 1.] †1. Failure to understand. Obs. a1674Traherne Poet.Wks. (1903) 33 My non-intelligence of human words Ten thousand Pleasures unto me affords. 2. Want of intelligence. 1905J. M. Robertson Chamberlain x. 52/2 It was the apotheosis of notional non-intelligence.