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intelligence

English

Etymology

From Old French intelligence, from Latin intelligentia. Doublet of intelligentsia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n?t?l.?.d???ns/

Noun

intelligence (countable and uncountable, plural intelligences)

  1. (chiefly uncountable) Capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn.
    • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5
      Not so, however, with Tarzan, the man-child. His life amidst the dangers of the jungle had taught him to meet emergencies with self-confidence, and his higher intelligence resulted in a quickness of mental action far beyond the powers of the apes.
  2. (countable) An entity that has such capacities.
    • The great Intelligences fair / That range above our mortal state, / In circle round the blessed gate, / Received and gave him welcome there.
  3. (chiefly uncountable) Information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
  4. (countable) A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
  5. (dated) Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.

Synonyms

  • (capacity of mind): wit, intellect, brightness
  • (entity): see Thesaurus:sentient
  • See also Thesaurus:intelligence

Derived terms

Translations


French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin intelligentia (the act of choosing between, intelligence), from intelleg? (understand), from inter (between) + leg? (choose, pick out, read).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??.t?.li.???s/, /??.te.li.???s/

Noun

intelligence f (plural intelligences)

  1. intelligence; cleverness
  2. comprehension

Derived terms

  • être d'intelligence
  • intelligence artificielle

Further reading

  • “intelligence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English intelligence.

Noun

intelligence f (invariable)

  1. A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information.

Middle French

Noun

intelligence f (plural intelligences)

  1. intelligence
  2. comprehension

Old French

Noun

intelligence f (oblique plural intelligences, nominative singular intelligence, nominative plural intelligences)

  1. comprehension
  2. meaning
  3. ability to comprehend

Descendants

  • ? English: intelligence
  • French: intelligence

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (intelligence, supplement)

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intellectual

English

Alternative forms

  • intellectuall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French intellectuel, from Latin intellectualis

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??nt??l?k(t)???l/

Adjective

intellectual (comparative more intellectual, superlative most intellectual)

  1. Pertaining to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive.
    • 1920, Harold Monro, Preface to s:The year's at the spring; an anthology of recent poetry
      Pleasure is various, but it cannot exist where the emotions or the imagination have not been powerfully stirred. Whether it be called sensual or intellectual, pleasure cannot be willed
  2. Endowed with intellect; having a keen sense of understanding; having the capacity for higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or cleverness
    • 1894, Edgar Wilson Nye, Nye's History of the USA Chapter 30
      The Fenimore Cooper Indian is no doubt a brave and highly intellectual person, educated abroad, refined and cultivated by foreign travel, graceful in the grub dance or scalp walk-around, yet tender-hearted as a girl, walking by night fifty-seven miles in a single evening to warn his white friends of danger.
  3. Suitable for exercising one's intellect; perceived by the intellect
    • 1916, Joseph McCabe, The Tyranny of Shams Chapter IX
    • A good deal of nonsense is written about sport and entertainment. Many of us can, with pleasant ease, suspend a severely intellectual task for a few hours to witness a first-class football match.
  4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind.
  5. (archaic, poetic) Spiritual.
    • 1805, William Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book II, lines 331-334 (eds. Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, & Stephen Gill, published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1979):
      I deem not profitless those fleeting moods / Of shadowy exultation; not for this, / That they are kindred to our purer mind / And intellectual life []

Antonyms

  • nonintellectual

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

intellectual (plural intellectuals)

  1. An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
    Synonym: highbrow
    Coordinate terms: egghead, nerd, geek
    • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, pp. 20–21:
      ‘You know I hate intellectuals.’
      ‘You mean you hate people who are cleverer than you are.’
      ‘Yes. I suppose that's why I like you so much, Tom.’
  2. (archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
    • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, Book I, Chapter 1, p. 2,[1]
      [] although their intellectuals had not failed in the theory of truth, yet did the inservient and brutall faculties control the suggestion of reason []

Derived terms

  • public intellectual

Translations

See also

  • intelligentsia

References

  • intellectual in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • "intellectual" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 169.

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