intellect

Roget category 450

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.1. Operations of intellect in general
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#450. Intellect

noun

intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle — rationality — cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties — faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius — brains, cognitive powers, intellectual powers — wit etc. 498 — ability etc. (skill) 698 — wisdom etc. 498 — Vernunft [G.], Verstand [G.].
soul, spirit, ghost, inner man, heart, breast, bosom, penetralia mentis [Lat.], divina particula aurae [Lat.], heart's core — the Absolute, psyche, subliminal consciousness, supreme principle.
brain, organ of thought, seat of thought — sensorium^†, sensory — head, headpiece — pate, noddle^†, noggin, skull, scull, pericranium [Med.], cerebrum, cranium, brainpan^†, sconce, upper story.
[in computers] [Comp.] central processing unit, CPU — arithmetic and logical unit, ALU.
[Science of mind] metaphysics — psychics, psychology — ideology — mental philosophy, moral philosophy — philosophy of the mind — pneumatology^†, phrenology — craniology [Med.], cranioscopy [Med.].
ideality, idealism — transcendentalism, spiritualism — immateriality etc. 317 — universal concept, universal conception.
metaphysician, psychologist etc.

verb

note, notice, mark — take notice of, take cognizance of be aware of, be conscious of — realize — appreciate — ruminate etc. (think) 451 — fancy etc. (imagine) 515.

adjective

intellectual [Relating to intellect], mental, rational, subjective, metaphysical, nooscopic^†, spiritual — ghostly — psychical^†, psychological — cerebral — animastic^† — brainy — hyperphysical^†, superphysical^† — subconscious, subliminal.
immaterial etc. 317 — endowed with reason.

adverb

in petto.

phrase

ens rationis [Lat.] — frons est animi janua [Lat.] [Cicero]; locos y ninos dicen la verdad [Sp.] — mens sola loco non exulat [Lat.] [Ovid]; my mind is my kingdom" [Campbell]; stern men with empires in their brains" [Lowell]; the mind, the music breathing from her face" [Byron]; thou living ray of intellectual Fire" [Falconer].

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