Synonyms

intellective

American

[in-tl-ek-tiv] / ˌɪn tlˈɛk tɪv /

adjective

having power to understand; intelligent; cognitive.
of or relating to the intellect.

Other Word Forms

intellectively adverb
unintellective adjective

Etymology

Origin of intellective

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English word from Latin word intellēctīvus. See intellect, -ive

Example Sentences

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So my intellective function from the day I met her started going up to keep up with her.

From Washington Post • Jun. 13, 2021

Therefore it is an operation, not of the intellective, but of the appetitive power.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

But very differently from Plato he discovered these in the categories or essential forms of intellective action,—the category of causality and dependence and the so-called forms of the transcendental æsthetic—Time and Space.

From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander

Whence it follows that the intellective habit is chiefly on the part of the intellect itself; and not on the part of the phantasm, which is common to soul and body.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

For Christ as man communicates with plants by His nutritive soul, with the brutes by His sensitive soul, and with the angels by His intellective soul, even as other men do.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

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