EGAVE

intelligence

Academic Word List, sublist 6.

About 38.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn; the ability to process sentient experience to generate true beliefs with a justified degree of confidence.
    intelligence quotient
  2. noun An individual's expected relative performance in a cognitive test.
    intelligence quotient
  3. noun The quality of making use or having made use of such capacities: depth of understanding, mental quickness.
  4. noun An entity that has such capacities.
  5. noun Information, often secret, about an enemy or about hostile activities. A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
  6. noun A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
  7. noun Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.

Similar words

word news intelligence activity intelligence operation tidings intellect mentally intellectual understanding knowledge

Often followed by

and of is in to agency that tests test

Word family

intelligences intelligent intelligently

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