intellect

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun knowledge and intellectual ability
  2. noun the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
  3. noun a person who uses the mind creatively

Etymology

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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Synonyms

mind

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