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Intellect

//ˈɪntəlɛkt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty. uncountable

    "Intellect is one of man's greatest powers."

  2. 2
    knowledge and intellectual ability wordnet
  3. 3
    The capacity of that faculty (in a particular person). uncountable

    "They were chosen because of their outstanding intellect."

  4. 4
    the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination wordnet
  5. 5
    A person who has that faculty to a great degree. countable, uncountable

    "Some of the world's leading intellects were meeting there."

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  1. 6
    a person who uses the mind creatively wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin intellēctus (“understanding, intellect”), from Latin intellegō (“understand; reason”), from inter (“between, among”) + legō (“read”), with connotation of bind.

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