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in·tel·lect
\ˈintəlˌekt\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin intellectus, from intellectus, past participle of intellegere, intelligere to perceive, understand — more at intelligent
1.
a. : the power or faculty of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will
b. Aristotelianism
(1) : passive reason
(2) : active reason
c. Scholasticism : the faculty of penetrating appearances and getting at the substance through abstraction from and elimination of the individual
d. Thomism
(1) : the receptive faculty of cognition that makes apprehensible the phantasms or intelligible forms — called also passive intellect, possible intellect, potential intellect
(2) : the aspect of the soul that is immortal and constitutes the active power of thought operating upon the phantasms or intelligible forms — called also active intellect, agent intellect
e. : understanding, reason
2.
a. : a person given to reflective thought or reasoning : a person of notable intellect : brain
< the outstanding intellect of the whole convention — Hispanic American Hist. Review >
b. : the totality of intellectual persons
< the intellect of the country recognized his superiority >
3. intellects plural, now chiefly dialect : wits, faculties
< she wishes I had more intellects — Eden Phillpotts >
Synonyms: see mind |