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[ in-tl-ek-shuhn ] / ˌɪn tlˈɛk ʃən / SEE SYNONYMS FOR intellection ON THESAURUS.COM
nounthe action or process of understanding; the exercise of the intellect; reasoning. a particular act of the intellect. a conception or idea as the result of such an act; notion; thought. Origin of intellection1400–50; late Middle English <Medieval Latin intellēctiōn- (stem of intellēctiō). See intellect, -ion Words nearby intellectionintegument, integumentary, integumentary system, intel, intellect, intellection, intellective, intellectronics, intellectual, intellectualism, intellectuality Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for intellectionI came [to personal essays] through the route of, if you want to call it intellection or a kind of interpretive [genre]. Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination|Mindy Farabee|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST But all this, be it understood, has no reference to the higher forms of intellection. A History of Science, Volume 4(of 5)|Henry Smith Williams The phrase intellecta similitudo plurimorum embodies both Induction and Intellection in one. With the rising level of Faculty engendered by progressive evolution, woman's powers of intellection have developed too. Feminism and Sex-Extinction|Arabella Kenealy
The Cartesians understood by this whatever is the object of thought, including an intellection as well as an imagination. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2|Henry Hallam The understanding is that thinking and cognition of individuals, which is even the act of intellection. The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures|Frederick von Schlegel
British Dictionary definitions for intellection
nounmental activity; thought an idea or thought Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to intellectionconcept, perception, belief, image, memory, thought, theory, recollection, suspicion, sense, opinion, notion, view, impression, conception, knowledge, sentiment, understanding, assumption, suggestion |