Intellection

Quick meaning: Intellection is a noun meaning (uncountable) The mental activity or process of grasping with the intellect; apprehension by the mind; understanding.

Meaning

(uncountable) The mental activity or process of grasping with the intellect; apprehension by the mind; understanding.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A particular act of grasping by means of the intellect.
2. (countable) The mental content of an act of grasping by means of the intellect, as a thought, idea, or conception.

Example Sentences

Our senses, our instincts, our intellections are all instruments of adaptation.

When Banerjee talks about the artist's thinking about the music, she is not referring to an intellection about the mechanics of technique.

The purpose of philosophy is to unite oneself with the objects of the intellect, and even at last with the One that is above all intellection.

These books will fill, and well fill, certain stretches of life […] But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influences of abysmic Nature, or its affinities in literature or human society, and the soul resents the keenest mere intellection, they will not be sought for.

Word Forms

• intellections

Synonyms for intellection

Depending on context, synonyms include cerebration, mentation, thought, thinking.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include thought, mentation, thinking, cerebration, intellect, intellectual.

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