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 ); intellect, -ion
Example Sentences
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When the second half begins to drift, the absence of electric drive-by observation and intellection becomes more apparent.
From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2022
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
But inert and inadequate in muscular action, it is negative in intellection.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella
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