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intellect

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
15
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈɪntəlɛkt/
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/ˈɪntəlɛkt/ · /ˈɪntəˌlɛkt/ · /ˈɪntəlekt/

Definition of intellect

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty.
    “Intellect is one of man's greatest powers.”
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noun

  1. (uncountable)The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty.
    “Intellect is one of man's greatest powers.”
  2. (uncountable)The capacity of that faculty (in a particular person).
    “They were chosen because of their outstanding intellect.”
    “Arms of stripes and shirts of checks / You had a very nice intellect”
  3. (countable, uncountable)A person who has that faculty to a great degree.
    “Some of the world's leading intellects were meeting there.”

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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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