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Intellection

🔄 Synonyms of "Intellection"

4 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
cerebrationnoun	The act of cerebrating; reflection, thinking, thought.
mentationnoun	Mental activity or mental state, including cognition or, more specifically, thinking.
thoughtnoun	(countable) A representation created in the mind without the use of one's faculties of vision, sound, smell, touch, or taste; an instance of thinking.
thinkingnoun	Thought; verbal noun of think.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Intellection"

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Word	Definition
thoughtnoun	(countable) A representation created in the mind without the use of one's faculties of vision, sound, smell, touch, or taste; an instance of thinking.
mentationnoun	Mental activity or mental state, including cognition or, more specifically, thinking.
thinkingnoun	Thought; verbal noun of think.
cerebrationnoun	The act of cerebrating; reflection, thinking, thought.
intellectnoun	(uncountable) The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty.
intellectual	Endowed with intellect; having a keen sense of understanding; having the capacity for higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or cleverness
intelligencenoun	(chiefly uncountable) The capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn; the ability to process sentient experience to generate true beliefs with a justified degree of confidence.
apprehensionnoun	Anticipation, especially of unfavorable things such as dread or fear or the prospect of something unpleasant in the future.
sensenoun	Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
understandingnoun	(uncountable) The act of one that understands or comprehends; the mental process of discernment of meaning.
brainnoun	The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action.
intellectualizationnoun	The act or process of intellectualizing.
intendimentnoun	(obsolete) Intention, objective.
intellectualisationnoun	The act or process of intellectualising.
perspicacitynoun	Acute discernment or understanding; insight.
insightnoun	Power of acute observation and deduction
knowledgenoun	The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.
conceitnoun	(uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.
innerstandingnoun	Comprehension of one's own purported innate knowledge.
thinkverb	(transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.