intellect

1. Knowledge and intellectual ability (synset 105626632)
   "he reads to improve his mind"; "he has a keen intellect"
   tells us about:

   • intellectual - appealing to or using the intellect
   • nonintellectual - not intellectual
   is a type of: intelligence - the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience
   same as: mind
2. The capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination (synset 105659525)
   "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil"
   is a type of: faculty, mental faculty, module - one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
   same as: reason, understanding
3. A person who uses the mind creatively (synset 109644715)
   is a type of: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being
   subtypes:

   • anomalist - someone who has a special interest in exceptional cases
   • exponent - someone who expounds and interprets or explains
   • alchemist - one who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone
   • aphorist - someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms
   • bel esprit - a witty or clever person with a fine mind
   • clever clogs, clever dick - an intellectual who is ostentatiously and irritatingly knowledgeable
   • decipherer, decoder - the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text
   • egghead - an intellectual; a very studious and academic person
   • expositor, expounder - a person who explains
   • brain, brainiac, einstein, genius, mastermind - someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
   • highbrow - a person of intellectual or erudite tastes
   • mentor, wise man - a wise and trusted guide and advisor
   • bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student - a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
   • doubter, sceptic, skeptic - someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs
   • specifier - someone who draws up specifications giving details (as for obtaining a patent)
   • subjectivist - a person who subscribes to subjectivism
   • synthesiser, synthesist, synthesizer - an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods
   • idealogue, theoretician, theoriser, theorist, theorizer - someone who theorizes (especially in science or art)
   • creative thinker, mind, thinker - an important intellectual
   • thinker - someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision)
   • illusionist, seer, visionary - a person with unusual powers of foresight
   • wonderer - someone who is curious about something
   same as: intellectual

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