Intellect

What do we mean by intellect?

The ability to learn and reason; the capacity for knowledge and understanding. noun

A person's individual ability to think and reason. noun

A person of great intellectual ability. noun

The understanding; the sum of all the cognitive faculties except sense, or except sense and imagination. noun

Mind collectively; current or collective intelligence: as, the intellect of the time. noun

Plural Wits; senses; mind: as, disordered in his intellects. noun

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. noun

The capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; mental capacity. noun

A particular mind, especially a person of high intelligence. noun

The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding (uncountable) noun

The capacity of that faculty (in a particular person) (uncountable) noun

A person who has that faculty to a great degree noun

Knowledge and intellectual ability noun

A person who uses the mind creatively noun

The capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination noun

The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty (uncountable)

The capacity of that faculty (in a particular person) (uncountable)

A person who has that faculty to a great degree

Words that are spelled similarly to intellect:
intellect, intersect, interject, intelnet, intellects.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word intellect:
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Words that rhyme with intellect:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe intellect:
human, active, pure, superior, keen, divine, powerful, possible, strong, clear, brilliant, practical, vigorous, fine, weak, mere, speculative, sharp, cultivated, passive, acute, rational, critical, infinite, trained, average, subtle, limited, creative, quick, ordinary, mighty, feeble, greatest, scientific, finite, highest, greek, potential, conscious, cold, bright, masculine, discursive, penetrating, female, logical, gigantic, universal, extraordinary, sound, giant, noble, profound, remarkable, democratic, formidable, restless, abstract, perfect, inferior, angelic, disordered, splendid, dull, developed, lofty, comprehensive, enlightened.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective intellect:
model, equipment, will, factors, theory, abilities, soul, morality, emotion, acts, egoself, operating, moves, the, answers, works, result, opposition, emotions, objective, deals, proceeds, connives, augmentation, knowledge, ualism, worship, training, reason, hypotheses, instinct, ego, mind, tests, combination, creator, nothing, literators, society, strips, measures, agglomerate, contracting, guilford, perceives, operate, complex, consciousness, checks, pause, classification, labour, bridges, vehicle, yields, refuse, rules, advances, equipments, separates, building, masters, counts, kind, predominant, entire, one, psychology, faith.

Words that sound like intellect:
intellect, intellects, analect, interlocked, intellective, intellected, indelicate, anderlecht, interlinked, intact, interact, indirect, interject, interlock, induct, inflect, untucked, idiolect, min dialect, interlake, entracte, indult, intakt, scintillate, analects, antilock, analecta, intimate, inflict, intuit, indolent, in effect, unlicked, inhalt, insect, elect, annihilate, inject, unlocked, interlude, intersect, ventilate, indulged, insulate, inlet, unalike, interlaced, immolate, entailed, intellection, unliked, insolate, intonate, uncloaked, unlooked, annulet, untracked, involute, introject, insekt, intal, in the light, in the lead, unslaked, intech, intl, interlocks, intec, intext, ennialate, in the act, invect, insolite, unterricht, undirect.