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Noun intellect has 3 senses
- mind, intellect - knowledge and intellectual ability; "he reads to improve his mind"; "he has a keen intellect"
--1 is a kind of intelligence
- reason, understanding, intellect - 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"
--2 is a kind of faculty, mental faculty, module
- intellectual, intellect - a person who uses the mind creatively
--3 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
--3 has particulars: | anomalist; exponent; alchemist; aphorist; bel esprit; clever Dick, clever clogs; decoder, decipherer; egghead; genius, mastermind, brain, Einstein; highbrow; mentor, wise man; scholar, scholarly person, student; skeptic, sceptic, doubter; specifier; subjectivist; synthesist, synthesizer, synthesiser; theorist, theoretician, theorizer, theoriser; thinker, creative thinker, mind; thinker; visionary, illusionist, seer; wonderer |
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