'Intellect' definitions:
Definition of 'intellect'
(from WordNet)
noun
Knowledge and intellectual ability; "he reads to improve his mind"; "he has a keen intellect" [syn: mind, intellect]
noun
The capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil" [syn: reason, understanding, intellect]
noun
A person who uses the mind creatively [syn: intellectual, intellect]
Definition of 'Intellect'
From: GCIDE
- Intellect \In"tel*lect\, n. [L. intellectus, fr. intelligere, intellectum, to understand: cf. intellect. See Intelligent.]
- 1. (Metaph.) 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; mental capacity. [PJC]
- 3. A particular mind, especially a person of high intelligence; as, he was a great intellect. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'intellect'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- apprehension,
- authority,
- Brahmin,
- brain,
- brains,
- brainworker,
- caliber,
- capacity,
- cleverness,
- common sense,
- comprehension,
- conception,
- consciousness,
- deductive power,
- doctor,
- egghead,
- elder,
- elder statesman,
- esemplastic power,
- genius,
- great soul,
- guru,
- head,
- highbrow,
- ideation,
- illuminate,
- integrative power,
- intellectual,
- intellectual grasp,
- intellectual power,
- intellectualism,
- intellectualist,
- intellectuality,
- intelligence,
- intelligence quotient,
- intuition,
- IQ,
- judgement,
- knowledge,
- literate,
- lover of wisdom,
- mahatma,
- man of intellect,
- man of wisdom,
- mandarin,
- master,
- mastermind,
- mental age,
- mental capacity,
- mental grasp,
- mental ratio,
- mentality,
- mentor,
- mind,
- mother wit,
- native wit,
- oracle,
- philosopher,
- power of mind,
- pundit,
- rabbi,
- rationality,
- reason,
- reasonableness,
- reasoning power,
- rishi,
- sage,
- sanity,
- sapient,
- savant,
- scholar,
- scope of mind,
- seer,
- sense,
- starets,
- thinker,
- thinking power,
- understanding,
- white-collar intellectual,
- wise man,
- wise old man,
- wit