Yahoo Web Search

- All
- Images
- Videos
- News
- Local
- Shopping
More
Past month
- Anytime
- Past day
- Past week
- Past month

Dictionary
In·tel·lect

/ˈin(t)lˌek(t)/

noun
- 1. the faculty of reasoning and understanding objectively, especially with regard to abstract or academic matters: "he was a man of action rather than of intellect" Similar mindbrainbrainsheadintelligencereasonunderstandingcomprehensionthoughtbrainpowersensejudgmentwisdomwitsinformal:nousgray matterbrainboxbrain cellsloafupper storeysmartskopOpposite emotion
- ▪ the understanding or mental powers of a particular person: "his keen intellect"
- ▪ an intelligent or intellectual person: "sapping our country of some of its brightest intellects" Similar thinkerintellectualbluestockingacademicscholarsagemindbrain
Word Origin late Middle English: from Latin intellectus ‘understanding’, from intellegere ‘understand’ (see intelligent).
Scrabble Points: 11
- I
  1
- N
  1
- T
  1
- E
  1
- L
  1
- L
  1
- E
  1
- C
  3
- T
  1
Powered by Oxford Languages
More Definitions, Word Origin & Scrabble Show less

Searches related to define intellect

define intellect vs intelligence intellect vs intelligence
define intellect dictionary define intelligence
define intellect for kids define intellectual ability
define will define sojourner

Intellect
Email
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Developed ability of the mind to asure to emerge with the correct conclusions about what is true or real, and about how to solve problems
In the study of the human mind, intellect refers to, describes, and identifies the ability of the human mind to reach correct conclusions about what is true and what is false in reality; and how to solve problems. Derived from the Ancient Greek philosophy term nous, intellect derived from the Latin intelligere (“to understand”), from which derives the term intelligence in the French and English la... Wikipedia
- Wiki
Feedback