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/ɪnˈtɛl.ɪ.d͡ʒəns/ · noun
(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..
...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Not so, however, with Tarzan, the man-child. His life amidst the dangers of the jungle had taught him to meet emergencies with self-confidence, and his higher intelligence resulted in a quickness of mental action far beyond the powers of the apes.
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.
From a religious point of view, a bodhisattva with sharp faculties and great intelligence can cause a tremendous upheaval if he or she misuses that power under the influence of negative emotions, like attachment and hatred.
The great Intelligences fair That range above our mortal state, In circle round the blessed gate, Received and gave him welcome there.
The living intelligence, the Martian within the hood, was slain and splashed to the four winds of heaven, and the thing was now but a mere intricate device of metal whirling to destruction.
But there are latent powers within man alone that are not yet fully understood and[…] we cannot definitely state what is, and what is not, due to the interference or influence of discarnate intelligences.
He passes beyond the projections and thought forms of his own creation to the wholly other and independent world of the angelic intelligences.
Use intelligence when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Intelligence means (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..
Common synonyms include brain, brains, cleverness, head.
Possible antonyms include blockheadedness, boneheadedness, density, denseness.
...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
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