intellect

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The power of the mind to think, reason, and understand.

   Solving problems like this requires real intellect.

2. 2
   noun

   A person's level of mental ability.

   They were chosen for the team because of their outstanding intellect.

3. 3
   noun

   A highly intelligent person.

   Some of the world's leading intellects were meeting at the conference.

Borrowed from Late Latin intellēctus (“understanding, intellect”), from Latin intellegō (“understand; reason”), from inter (“between, among”) + legō (“read”), with connotation of bind.

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