intellect :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

n. knowledge and intellectual ability; "he reads to improve his mind"; "he has a keen intellect"

n. a person who uses the mind creatively

n. the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil"

intelligence, reasonableness, rationality, reason

n. the state of having good sense and sound judgment; "his rationality may have been impaired"; "he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions"

intellect, reason, understanding

n. the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil"

insightfulness, acumen

n. shrewdness shown by keen insight

wisdom, sapience

n. ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight

consciousness

n. an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation; "he lost consciousness"

initiate, pundit, savant, learned person

n. someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field

academician, academic, faculty member

n. an educator who works at a college or university

sage, guru, mahatma

n. a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom

intelligence, reasonableness, rationality, reason

n. the state of having good sense and sound judgment; "his rationality may have been impaired"; "he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions"

mind, intellect

n. knowledge and intellectual ability; "he reads to improve his mind"; "he has a keen intellect"

brain, brainpower, mentality, wit, mental capacity, learning ability

n. mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"

judgment, judgement, sagacity, sagaciousness, discernment

n. the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

perception, percept, perceptual experience

n. the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept

intelligence

n. the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience

wisdom, sapience

n. ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight

logic

n. reasoned and reasonable judgment; "it made a certain kind of logic"

judgment, judgement, mind

n. an opinion formed by judging something; "he was reluctant to make his judgment known"; "she changed her mind"

position, view, perspective

n. a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what follows from the positivist view"

stand, point of view, viewpoint, standpoint

n. a mental position from which things are viewed; "we should consider this problem from the viewpoint of the Russians"; "teaching history gave him a special point of view toward current events"

reason

n. a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion; "there is reason to believe he is lying"

emotion

n. any strong feeling

simpleton, simple

n. a person lacking intelligence or common sense

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