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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 principlerationalitycogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual facultiesfaculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, geniusbrains, cognitive powers, intellectual powerswit etc. 498ability etc. (skill) 698wisdom etc. 498Vernunft [G.], Verstand [G.].
soul, spirit, ghost, inner man, heart, breast, bosom, penetralia mentis [Lat.], divina particula aurae [Lat.], heart's corethe Absolute, psyche, subliminal consciousness, supreme principle.
brain, organ of thought, seat of thoughtsensorium, sensoryhead, headpiecepate, noddle, noggin, skull, scull, pericranium [Med.], cerebrum, cranium, brainpan, sconce, upper story.
[in computers] [Comp.] central processing unit, CPUarithmetic and logical unit, ALU.
[Science of mind] metaphysicspsychics, psychologyideologymental philosophy, moral philosophyphilosophy of the mindpneumatology, phrenologycraniology [Med.], cranioscopy [Med.].
ideality, idealismtranscendentalism, spiritualismimmateriality etc. 317universal concept, universal conception.
metaphysician, psychologist etc.

verb

note, notice, marktake notice of, take cognizance of be aware of, be conscious ofrealizeappreciateruminate etc. (think) 451fancy etc. (imagine) 515.

adjective

intellectual [Relating to intellect], mental, rational, subjective, metaphysical, nooscopic, spiritualghostlypsychical, psychologicalcerebralanimasticbrainyhyperphysical, superphysicalsubconscious, subliminal.
immaterial etc. 317endowed 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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