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intellection

[ in-tl-ek-shuh n ]

/ ˌɪn tlˈɛk ʃən /

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noun

the action or process of understanding; the exercise of the intellect; reasoning.

a particular act of the intellect.

a conception or idea as the result of such an act; notion; thought.

Origin of intellection

1400–50; late Middle English < Medieval Latin intellēctiōn- (stem of intellēctiō). See intellect, -ion

Words nearby intellection

integrity, integument, integumentary, intel, intellect, intellection, intellective, intellectronics, intellectual, intellectual property, intellectualism

Example sentences from the Web for intellection

I came [to personal essays] through the route of, if you want to call it intellection or a kind of interpretive [genre].

Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination |Mindy Farabee |December 26, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
But all this, be it understood, has no reference to the higher forms of intellection.

A History of Science, Volume 4(of 5) |Henry Smith Williams
The phrase intellecta similitudo plurimorum embodies both Induction and Intellection in one.

Aristotle |George Grote
With the rising level of Faculty engendered by progressive evolution, woman's powers of intellection have developed too.

Feminism and Sex-Extinction |Arabella Kenealy

The Cartesians understood by this whatever is the object of thought, including an intellection as well as an imagination.

Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2 |Henry Hallam
The understanding is that thinking and cognition of individuals, which is even the act of intellection.

The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures |Frederick von Schlegel

British Dictionary definitions for intellection

intellection

/ (ˌɪntɪˈlɛkʃən) /

noun

mental activity; thought

an idea or thought