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intellect

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  • Regno Unito//ˈɪntəlɛkt//
  • Canada//ˈɪntəˌlɛkt//
  • Australia//ˈɪntəlekt//

The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty.

sostantivo

  1. 1

    The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty.

    Intellect is one of man's greatest powers.

  2. 2

    The capacity of that faculty (in a particular person).

    They were chosen because of their outstanding intellect.

    Arms of stripes and shirts of checks / You had a very nice intellect

  3. 3

    A person who has that faculty to a great degree.

    Some of the world's leading intellects were meeting there.

Etimologia

Borrowed from Late Latin intellēctus (“understanding, intellect”), from Latin intellegō (“understand; reason”), from inter (“between, among”) + legō (“read”), with connotation of bind.

Forme

plurale
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