intellectual
Etymology
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Etymology
From Old French intellectuel, from
- IPA: /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃʊəl/, /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃwəl/, /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃəl/
intellectual
- Pertaining to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive.
- intellectual powers, activities, etc.
- 1920, Harold Monro, Preface to ; an anthology of recent poetry
- Pleasure is various, but it cannot exist where the emotions or the imagination have not been powerfully stirred. Whether it be called sensual or intellectual, pleasure cannot be willed
- Endowed with intellect; having a keen sense of understanding; having the capacity for higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or cleverness
- an intellectual person
- Suitable for exercising one's intellect; perceived by the intellect
- intellectual employments
- Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind.
- intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy
- (archaic, poetic) Spiritual.
- 1805, William Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book II, lines 331-334 (eds. Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, & Stephen Gill, published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1979):
- I deem not profitless those fleeting moods / Of shadowy exultation; not for this, / That they are kindred to our purer mind / And intellectual life […]
- 1805, William Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book II, lines 331-334 (eds. Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, & Stephen Gill, published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1979):
- French: intellectuel
- German: intellektuell
- Italian: intellettuale
- Portuguese: intelectual
- Russian: интеллектуа́льный
- Spanish: intelectual
- Italian: intellettuale
- Portuguese: intelectual
intellectual (plural intellectuals)
- An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
- 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn:
- It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense "Left". Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order.
- (archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
- French: intellectuel, intello (informal)
- German: Intellektueller, Intellektuelle
- Portuguese: intelectual
- Russian: интеллиге́нт
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