different between intellect vs perspicacity
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).
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perspicacity
English
Etymology
perspicac(ious) +? -ity, from Middle French perspicacité, from Latin perspic?cit?s (“sharpsightedness, discrimination”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: per?spi?cac?i?ty
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p??.sp??kæs.?.ti?/
- (US) enPR: pûr?sp?·k?s??·t?, IPA(key): /?p???.sp??kæs.?.ti?/
Noun
perspicacity (usually uncountable, plural perspicacities)
- Acute discernment or understanding; insight.
- The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly.
- 1856, "Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey," The Quarterly Review, vol. 98, p. 458:
- His very veneration for his father-in-law, combined as it is with a total want of the most ordinary perspicacity, is an additional disqualification.
- 1888, "Review of La suggestion mentale by H. Bourru and P. Burot," The American Journal of Psychology, vol. 1 no. 3, p. 503:
- As the former consists in the transmission of psychic states inappreciable to the normal perspicacity or senses, the transfer cannot pass through the medium of intelligence.
- 1856, "Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey," The Quarterly Review, vol. 98, p. 458:
- (obsolete) Keen eyesight.
- 1833, John Harrison Curtis, A Treatise on the Physiology and Diseases of the Eye, London, Longman, p. 138:
- Attentive consideration of the phenomena of vision has led to the invention of artificial aids by which the sight may be wonderfully strengthened and preserved, and man endowed at once with the perspicacity of the eagle or the minute scrutiny of the insect.
- 1833, John Harrison Curtis, A Treatise on the Physiology and Diseases of the Eye, London, Longman, p. 138:
Related terms
- perspicacious
- perspicaciousness
- perspicuity
Translations
References
- Webster, Noah (1828) , “perspicacity”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
- perspicacity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “perspicacity” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "perspicacity" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)
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