different between intellect vs comprehension
intellect
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin intell?ctus (“understanding, intellect”), perfect passive participle of Latin intelleg? (“understand; reason”), from inter (“between, among”) + leg? (“read”), with connotation of bind.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??nt?l?kt/
Noun
intellect (countable and uncountable, plural intellects)
- (uncountable) The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:intelligence
- (uncountable) The capacity of that faculty (in a particular person).
- A person who has that faculty to a great degree.
- Synonym: intellectual
Related terms
- intellectual
- intellectualism
- intellectualize
- intelligence
- intelligent
- intelligentsia
- intelligible
Translations
See also
- mind
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin intell?ctus (“understanding, intellect”), perfect passive participle of Latin intelleg? (“understand; reason”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.t?.l?kt/, /??.te.l?kt/
Noun
intellect m (plural intellects)
- (psychology, philosophy) intellect
See also
- affect
Further reading
- “intellect” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
intellect From the web:
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comprehension
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French compréhension, from Latin comprehensi? (“taking together”), from com- (“with, together”) +? prehend? (“take”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /k?mp???h?n?n?/
- (US) IPA(key): /k?mp???h?n?n?/
Noun
comprehension (countable and uncountable, plural comprehensions)
- thorough understanding
- (logic) The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.
- (programming) A compact syntax for generating a list in some functional programming languages.
- (Christianity) The inclusion of nonconformists within the Church of England.
Synonyms
- understanding
Related terms
Translations
comprehension From the web:
- what comprehension means
- what comprehension questions
- what comprehension in english
- what comprehension skills
- what comprehension monitoring strategies
- what's comprehension test
- what comprehension strategy is sequencing
- what comprehension strategy is predicting
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