Definitions for intellection

intellection in·tel·lec·tion

Spelling: [in-tl-ek-shuh n]
IPA: /ˌɪn tlˈɛk ʃən/

Intellection is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 423 anagrams from letters in intellection (ceeiillnnott).

Definitions for intellection

noun

  1. the action or process of understanding; the exercise of the intellect; reasoning.
  2. a particular act of the intellect.
  3. a conception or idea as the result of such an act; notion; thought.

Origin of intellection

1400-50; late Middle English Medieval Latin intellēctiōn- (stem of intellēctiō). See intellect, -ion

Examples for intellection

I came [to personal essays] through the route of, if you want to call it intellection or a kind of interpretive [genre].

But inert and inadequate in muscular action, it is negative in intellection.

But, the instrument of intellection completed, it is quickly brought into use, and now results of the highest order appear.

Religion is not intellection, for no one has ever been able to formulate a creed that is common to all religions.

From the instrument of instinct there has been developed an instrument of intellection.

The phrase intellecta similitudo plurimorum embodies both Induction and intellection in one.

We divide all intellection: the obviously preposterousness and the established.

But all this, be it understood, has no reference to the higher forms of intellection.

In fact the process of intellection has to pass several stages from sense perception through imagination.

Rays from it are deflected toward the concrete, to function as intellection.

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