intellect
/ˈɪntəˌlɛkt/ noun C1- The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty. · Intellect is one of man's greatest powers.
- The capacity of that faculty (in a particular person). · They were chosen because of their outstanding intellect.
- A person who has that faculty to a great degree. · Some of the world's leading intellects were meeting there.
Plural intellects
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“Perhaps there are points which have escaped your Machiavellian intellect.
“Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect.
Sam Merton's slow intellect had only gradually appreciated the situation.
Man’s whole life passes in doing these things, and his intellect is exhausted by reflecting on them.
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