noun
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mental activity; thought
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an idea or thought
Etymology
Origin of intellection
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin intellēctiōn- (stem of intellēctiō ); see intellect, -ion
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Even its harshest critics had to acknowledge its ambition; it took on Argentina’s Dirty War, gaming culture and high theory, wrangling with the problem of how to dramatize intellection and laying bare a fascinating mind.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2021
In books of the 1920s and ’30s — the Golden Age — one can experience the calm of austere intellection, observe the restoration of order after chaos.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2020
The result is not just a greater capacity for intellection but changes to the central nervous system itself—e.g., learning to read permanently alters the way the brain processes language.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2018
Has the power of that intellection been vacated as well?
From Time ● Feb. 14, 2013
We study the complex in the simple; and only from the intuition of the lower can we safely proceed to the intellection of the higher degrees.
From Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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