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intellect

noun
/ˈɪntəlɛkt/UK/ˈɪntəˌlɛkt/CA/ˈɪntəlekt/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from intellegō
  2. borrowed from intellēctus

Definitions

  1. The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding

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

    • Intellect is one of man's greatest powers.

  2. 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. A person who has that faculty to a great degree.

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

The neighborhood

Derived

artilect, intellected, superintellect

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at intellect. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at intellect. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at intellect

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA