Definition for
intellect
noun – The understanding; the sum of all the cognitive faculties except sense, or except sense and imagination.
noun – Mind collectively; current or collective intelligence: as, the intellect of the time.
noun – plural Wits; senses; mind: as, disordered in his intellects.
noun – The part or faculty of the human mind by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.
noun – The capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; mental capacity.
noun – A particular mind, especially a person of high intelligence.
noun –
the faculty of
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