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intellection
/ ˌɪntɪˈlɛkʃən /
noun
- mental activity; thought
- an idea or thought
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Word History and Origins
Origin of intellection1
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Example Sentences
I came [to personal essays] through the route of, if you want to call it intellection or a kind of interpretive [genre].
In fact the process of intellection has to pass several stages from sense perception through imagination.
Intellect and intellection signify to the common ear consideration of abstract truth.
With the rising level of Faculty engendered by progressive evolution, woman's powers of intellection have developed too.
This, of course, is equivalent to postulating the cerebral cortex as the exclusive seat of higher intellection.
Nevertheless Intelligence possesses fulness and true intellection, because it immediately participates in the Good.
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