Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of using the intellect; thinking or reasoning.
- noun A thought or an idea.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; mental activity; exercise of or capacity for thought.
- noun In rhetoric, the figure also called synecdoche.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition.
- noun A creation of the mind itself.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The
mental activity orprocess ofgrasping with theintellect ;apprehension by themind ;understanding . - noun countable A
particular act of grasping by means of the intellect. - noun countable The
mental content of an act of grasping by means of the intellect, as athought ,idea , orconception .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word intellection.
Examples
-
The intellection is the more profound for this internal possession of the object.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
-
Intellectual-Principle — though, of course, there is another cause of intellection which is also a cause to Being, both rising in a source distinct from either.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
-
Nor therefore has it intellection which is a thing of the lower sphere where the first intellection, the only true, is identical with
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
-
The process of intellect we name by terms denoting activity, such as intellection, thinking, the _stream of thought_, and the latter describes it most truly.
Applied Psychology for Nurses Mary F. Porter
-
a rapid sort of first "intellection," an error that made all departments of education so trivial, assumptive and dogmatic for centuries before Comenius, Basedow and Pestalozzi, has been banished everywhere save from moral and religious training, where it still persists in full force.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
-
"intellection" is whetted by the moral and ethical concerns, as well as the conceptual space.
Anime Nano! 2009
-
Meaning the impressions on the senses are the material cause for intellection, the matter upon which the mental teeth chew.
January 9th, 2009 m_francis 2009
-
Taoist masters, the great founders of ancient Chinese philosophy, teach that such reliance on intellection over intuition is a mistake.
Arthur Rosenfeld: Must Humans Go the Way of the Dinosaurs? Arthur Rosenfeld 2011
-
Waltzing along the delicate border between intellection and intuition, Kingsley has created a volume that is more than a long string of words and more than a great story rife with fascinating ideas.
Arthur Rosenfeld: Deepen The Spirit Of The Holidays Arthur Rosenfeld 2010
-
In addition, Leibniz's theory of monadic perception — a psychology of ontological substance — provided the philosophical rationale for placing sensation, intellection, and feeling on a continuum, so that perception, or feeling, might be regarded as a "confused" form of thinking, yet remain clear in its effect.
Club Monad 2008
qms commented on the word intellection
The Donald mistakes a connection
Twixt talent and his strange election,
Thus fools will construe
Good luck as their due
In absence of all intellection.
February 19, 2018
qms commented on the word intellection
Since today is Presidents Day I thought our maximum leader deserved more celebration. Besides, I had some rhymes left over.
See comments at lodestar.
February 19, 2018