intellectuality
Americannoun
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the quality or state of being intellectual.
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intellectual character or power.
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Etymology
Origin of intellectuality
From the Late Latin word intellēctuālitās, dating back to 1605–15. See intellectual, -ity
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“She wanted artists to embrace our intellectuality and its fevered origins.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2021
Finally, I realized that’s the point: He’s a classic master teacher in the “Dead Poets Society” mode: iconoclastic but gimmicky, glazed with intellectuality but essentially narcissistic.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2017
It’s unfortunate that Black Cindy’s narrative is unique, but in the world of prestige dramas and comedies, religion or acts of worship are usually presented as things outside of intellectuality or artistic expression.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2015
Ms. Wilson is more expansive of gesture; you suspect that her Marianne sees her intellectuality as a social handicap, and she overcompensates by being louder and funnier than she needs to be.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2015
His Self had crawled into this priesthood, into this arrogance, into this intellectuality.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
Brooklyn Eagle: “A dramatic critic who is not just ‘busting’ himself with Titanic intellectualities, but who is a readable dramatic critic....
From The Squirrel-Cage by Williams, John Alanzo
His meditation was not very intellectual or very profound, for since the change in his life Julian had put his old intellectualities away from him.
From Flames by Hichens, Robert Smythe
According to their intellectualities their talk is of labor and capital, of working-girls' clubs and model tenement-houses, of Buddha and Zola, of foreign titles, and transplanted fox-hunting.
From The Opinions of a Philosopher by Grant, Robert
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