INTELLECT

Pronunciation (US):

• INTELLECT (noun)
  The noun INTELLECT has 3 senses:

1. knowledge and intellectual ability
2. the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
3. a person who uses the mind creatively

  Familiarity information: INTELLECT used as a noun is uncommon.

• INTELLECT (noun)

Meaning:

Knowledge and intellectual ability

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

intellect; mind

Context examples:

he reads to improve his mind / he has a keen intellect

Hypernyms ("intellect" is a kind of...):

intelligence (the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience)

Attribute:

intellectual (appealing to or using the intellect)

nonintellectual (not intellectual)

Meaning:

The capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

intellect; reason; understanding

Context example:

we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil

Hypernyms ("intellect" is a kind of...):

faculty; mental faculty; module (one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind)

Meaning:

A person who uses the mind creatively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

intellectual; intellect

Hypernyms ("intellect" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intellect"):

anomalist (someone who has a special interest in exceptional cases)

bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)

doubter; sceptic; skeptic (someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs)

specifier (someone who draws up specifications giving details (as for obtaining a patent))

subjectivist (a person who subscribes to subjectivism)

synthesiser; synthesist; synthesizer (an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods)

idealogue; theoretician; theoriser; theorist; theorizer (someone who theorizes (especially in science or art))

creative thinker; mind; thinker (an important intellectual)

thinker (someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision))

illusionist; seer; visionary (a person with unusual powers of foresight)

mentor; wise man (a wise and trusted guide and advisor)

highbrow (a person of intellectual or erudite tastes)

exponent (someone who expounds and interprets or explains)

alchemist (one who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone)

aphorist (someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms)

bel esprit (a witty or clever person with a fine mind)

clever clogs; clever Dick (an intellectual who is ostentatiously and irritatingly knowledgeable)

decipherer; decoder (the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text)

egghead (an intellectual; a very studious and academic person)

expositor; expounder (a person who explains)

brain; brainiac; Einstein; genius; mastermind (someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality)

wonderer (someone who is curious about something)