Definitions for intellect

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intellect in·tel·lect

Spelling: [in-tl-ekt]

IPA: /ˈɪn tlˌɛkt/

Intellect is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 178 anagrams from letters in intellect (ceeillntt).

Definitions for intellect

noun

1. the power or faculty of the mind by which one knows or understands, as distinguished from that by which one feels and that by which one wills; the understanding; the faculty of thinking and acquiring knowledge.
2. capacity for thinking and acquiring knowledge, especially of a high or complex order; mental capacity.
3. a particular mind or intelligence, especially of a high order.
4. a person possessing a great capacity for thought and knowledge.
5. minds collectively, as of a number of persons or the persons themselves.

Origin of intellect

1350-1400; Middle English Latin intellēctus, equivalent to intelleg(ere) to understand + -tus suffix of v. action; see intelligent

Examples for intellect

This boasted power of intellect—this giddy triumph of beauty—what do they do for you?

At other times the contests are only of the intellect and the mind, but are equally remarkable.

He brought that intellect to bear on the chaotic bits and pieces (and people) of Animal House.

They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers.

Conscience, he said, was the soul's safeguard, and reason the safeguard of the heart and intellect.

But then I got a lot of insulting comments questioning my intellect.

His intellect was a blank; he had no knowledge, no desires, no affections.

For him the intellect as such is the organ of religious truth.

Anyone with the intellect of a ping-pong ball should understand how opportunistic that whistleblowing looks.

As in the case of Turner, the core of the intellect is missing.