Intelligence

Quick meaning: Intelligence is a noun meaning (countable) An entity that has such capacities.

Meaning

(countable) An entity that has such capacities.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
2. (chiefly uncountable) The quality of making use or having made use of such capacities: depth of understanding, mental quickness.
3. (chiefly uncountable) Information, often secret, about an enemy or about hostile activities.
4. (dated) Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.
5. (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.

Example Sentences

Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.

The great Intelligences fair That range above our mortal state, In circle round the blessed gate, Received and gave him welcome there.

He passes beyond the projections and thought forms of his own creation to the wholly other and independent world of the angelic intelligences.

...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.

Word Forms

• intelligences

Synonyms for intelligence

Depending on context, synonyms include brain, brains, cleverness, head, brightness, esprit.

Antonyms for intelligence

Common opposites include blockheadedness, boneheadedness, density, denseness, dimness, dimwittedness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include word, news, tidings, intellect, mentally, intellectual.

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