intellect.
The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty.
Meaning & usage
The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty.
Intellect is one of man's greatest powers.
The capacity of that faculty (in a particular person).
They were chosen because of their outstanding intellect.
A person who has that faculty to a great degree.
Some of the world's leading intellects were meeting there.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Late Latin intellēctus (“understanding, intellect”), from Latin intellegō (“understand; reason”), from inter (“between, among”) + legō (“read”), with connotation of bind.
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