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Intellection

noun

The process of using your mind to consider something carefully. Synonyms: cerebration, mentation, thinking, thought, thought process. "She paused for thought"

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Etymology of 'Intellection'

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"Intellection" Quotes from Famous Books

... weep! I would we were there! But I pray you to instruct me by intellection, Where ...

— Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse • Various

... had burst into flower, as the aloe blossoms once in a hundred years. The feelings of that great heart might have fallen unconsciously into phrases from that one love-poem of the Bible which such men as he read so purely and devoutly, and which warm the icy clearness of their intellection with the myrrh and spices of ardent lands, where earthly and heavenly love meet and blend in one indistinguishable horizon-line, like ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various

... it is apprehended by the sight, which I suppose means here esthetic intellection, it will be beautiful. But Aquinas also says BONUM EST IN QUOD TENDIT APPETITUS. In so far as it satisfies the animal craving for warmth fire is a good. In hell, however, it is ...

— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce

Words linked to "Intellection" : thought, line of thought, thread, ideation, preparation, convergent thinking, thinking, train of thought, mentation, planning, mental synthesis, excogitation, cerebration, construction, higher cognitive process, logical thinking, abstract thought, consideration, mysticism, free association, reasoning, provision, explanation, problem solving, divergent thinking, out-of-the-box thinking