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intelligence
  1. (uncountable) Capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn.
  2. (countable) An entity that has such capacities.
  3. (uncountable) Information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
  4. (countable) A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
  5. (dated) Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “Evelina's shrewd intelligence, however, perceives the hypocrisy behind the refined façades.”
      “We have engaged a market research company to gather intelligence on our competitors.”
      “The rogue nation's intelligence agency has been accused of being behind the recent cyber-attacks.”
intellection
  1. (uncountable) The mental activity or process of grasping with the intellect; apprehension by the mind; understanding.
  2. (countable) A particular act of grasping by means of the intellect.
  3. (countable) The mental content of an act of grasping by means of the intellect, as a thought, idea, or conception.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “His intellection of a utopian society was filled with equality and harmony among all its citizens.”
      “The philosopher's eloquent speech portrayed the depth of his intellection, as he flawlessly articulated his thoughts and formed logical judgments on complex philosophical concepts.”
      “Writing was the great discovery, her process of intellection, the frontier.”
intellect
  1. the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty (uncountable)
  2. the capacity of that faculty (in a particular person) (uncountable)
  3. a person who has that faculty to a great degree
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  5. Examples:
    1. “First, it is a denial of the power of the human intellect to reason out understanding.”
      “She considered that he, a man of culture and intellect, pitied her, a girl of culture and intellect, who must, for the sake of her relations, be mated with a clown.”
      “This is a highly recommended collection from a highly regarded intellect and one that will not disappoint.”
intelligibility
  1. That which is intelligible; the degree to which something is intelligible.
  2. The quality of recorded speech of every word being understandable.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “So the stark ontology of the mechanical philosopher is established a priori by appealing to a notion of intelligibility.”
      “I am not going to apologise for what may appear to be more heteronormative homo-social blindness to one's own horizon of intelligibility.”
      “They vary in clarity, intelligibility, accessibility of writing, and in the quality of their observations, conclusions, and recommendations.”
intellectual
intellectualism
  1. The use or development of the intellect.
  2. (philosophy) The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “His restless intellectualism curiously mirrors the expansive lives of the nomads and Australian cowboys he so much admires.”
      “I am still learning about this, so I am not an authority on feminist intellectualism.”
      “Even a Vietnam War hero from the Northeast came across as too steeped in intellectualism and internationalism to understand military families.”
intelligentsia
  1. The intellectual élite of a society (especially in nineteenth-century Poland, in Russia and later the Soviet Union).
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A deepening conflict between the liberal intelligentsia and the government has developed over the last several years.”
      “The set of questions, mostly aimed at the intelligentsia, seek to form an opinion on migration of Sikhs from Kashmir.”
      “I remember quite distinctly the moment that the radical intelligentsia fell out of love with nationalism.”
intelligencer
  1. (dated) A bringer of intelligence (news, information); a spy or informant.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The intelligencer delivered breaking news as a seasoned journalist, keeping the public informed and engaged.”
      “Barely, perhaps, and I should have to wire the intelligencer for money to return.”
      “Since it looked more vigorous with each passing hour, I saw myself on the payroll of the intelligencer for a long time to come.”
intellectualist
  1. An adherent of one of the forms of intellectualism.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “As an intellectualist, she spent countless hours researching and analyzing complex theories in her pursuit of knowledge.”
      “But, to the intellectualist, it is reason and knowledge that stand front and center in the active structure of the self.”
      “This approach embodied an intellectualist orientation capable only of yielding depthless and superficial personality types.”
intel
  1. intelligence (secret information)
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Organizations should get in touch with their intel folks and ask for a threat assessment.”
      “If the guards and intel personnel aren't well led and well disciplined, you're bound to see problems.”
      “Did we really have good intel about those mobile bioweapons labs he talked about in his UN presentation?”
intelligentness
  1. (nonstandard) The quality of being intelligent; intelligence.
  2. Examples:
    1. “There is just one way to guarantee the preservation of the kind of people in Russia who possess the quality of intelligentness in the sense of the formula cited.”
      “Human sensuality by its nature is intelligent, full of senses, but it does not mean that such intelligentness is completely unconditional givenness.”
      “According to Boyle the single greatest reason for accepting this philosophy is the intelligentness or clearness of its principles and explanations.”
intellectualisation
  1. The act or process of intellectualising.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The diminution of the importance of olfaction is a casualty of the drive towards the intellectualisation of modern life.”
      “Usually this took the form of a posthoc rationalization or intellectualisation of creative work that was made on the basis of intuition.”
      “He used the opportunity to rail against the intellectualisation of punk, and heckled his way through the ceremony.”
intellectualization
  1. The act or process of intellectualizing.
  2. Examples:
    1. “What pursues Jenkins into her fourth decade of dance-making is a reputation for excessive intellectualization in her movement.”
      “One is free to permit a certain amount of intellectualization in yin practice since it does not involve actual fighting.”
      “However, there's a fine line between mysticism and the intellectualization of spirituality.”
intellectuality
  1. The characteristic of being intellectual.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “At that time human beings will be making tremendous progress in the realms of intellectuality and intuition.”
      “Nothing can catapult you into the highest stratum of intellectuality, quite as readily as books.”
      “The pair of them make a delightfully balanced couple, his gentle intellectuality counterpoised by her firm practicality.”
intelligibleness
intelligency
  1. Obsolete form of intelligence.
intellectuall
  1. Obsolete form of intellectual.
intellectualness
  1. Quality of being intellectual.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I think audiences accept the intellectualness of her plays because her sense of the theatre is so natural.”
      “Is it impossible to combine the hardiness of these savages with the intellectualness of the civilized man?”
intellectualisations
intellectualizations
intellectualists
  1. plural of intellectualist
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Accordingly, if this is a compromise between the intellectualists and the voluntarists, it is a disingenuous one.”
      “Concerning the nature of heaven, intellectualists followed Aristotle's lead by seeing the final state of happiness as a state of contemplation.”
      “For if Rayman is correct about the connection between sublimity and morality, then the Kantian nonintellectualists are right, and the Kantian intellectualists are wrong.”
intellectualisms
intellectualities
intelligentsias
intellectualls
  1. plural of intellectuall
intelligencers
intellectuals
  1. plural of intellectual
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Accenture defined them as business intellectuals but they are probably better known as management gurus or business experts.”
      “The writers and intellectuals in the Congress for Cultural Freedom were, like writers everywhere, temperamental and quarrelsome.”
      “The university rector is asked to form a team of Papuan intellectuals to start the process.”
intelligences
  1. plural of intelligence
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  3. Examples:
    1. “At least with extraterrestrial intelligences we can guess what might have happened.”
      “But do we have an obligation to allow machine intelligences to evolve into human-like minds?”
      “Most of the intelligences are linked to tangibles like objects or other people, but existential intelligence deals with intangibles.”
intellections
intelligencies
  1. plural of intelligency
intellects
  1. plural of intellect
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  3. Examples:
    1. “To the world, he was one of the brightest intellects of a very great intellectual era.”
      “In anciently inhabited countries, the dust of ages seems to settle upon and smother the intellects and energies of man.”
      “At 18, the two young math prodigies shared not only looks and last names, but identical intellects.”
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