intellect

About 8.36 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty.

   Intellect is one of man's greatest powers.

2. noun The capacity of that faculty (in a particular person).

   They were chosen because of their outstanding intellect.

3. noun A person who has that faculty to a great degree.

   Some of the world's leading intellects were meeting there.

Similar words

intellectual understanding mind reason intelligence wisdom wit rationality ingenuity think

Often followed by

and is of to in or as was which

Word family

intellects