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Definition of Intellection
1. Noun. The process of using your mind to consider something carefully. "She paused for thought"
Generic synonyms: Higher Cognitive Process
Specialized synonyms: Free Association, Construction, Mental Synthesis, Abstract Thought, Logical Thinking, Reasoning, Line Of Thought, Thread, Train Of Thought, Mysticism, Ideation, Consideration, Excogitation, Explanation, Planning, Preparation, Provision, Problem Solving, Convergent Thinking, Divergent Thinking, Out-of-the-box Thinking
Derivative terms: Cerebrate, Think, Think, Think, Think, Think
Definition of Intellection
1. n. A mental act or process;
Definition of Intellection
1. Noun. The mental activity or process of grasping with the intellect; apprehension by the mind; understanding. ¹
2. Noun. A particular act of grasping by means of the intellect. ¹
3. Noun. The mental content of an act of grasping by means of the intellect, as a thought, idea, or conception. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Intellection
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intellection
Literary usage of Intellection
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Representative Significance of Form: An Essay in Comparative Aesthetics by George Lansing Raymond (1909)
"Subconscious and Conscious Influences Found in all intellection, but the Main
Source of it Different in Religion, Science, and Art—Making it in Each ..."
2. Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory: A Treatise of the Phenomena, Laws by George Trumbull Ladd (1904)
"PRIMARY intellection FREQUENT use has already been made, ... First: Primary
intellection is not so much a faculty—in the sense of being a form of mental ..."
3. Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory: A Treatise of the Phenomena, Laws by George Trumbull Ladd (1894)
"PRIMARY intellection FREQUENT use has already been made, ... First: Primary
intellection is not so much a faculty—in the sense of being a form of mental ..."
4. Psychological Principles by James Ward (1919)
"General Character and Growth of intellection. § 5. The distinctive character of
this intelligible form or synthesis lies then in the fact that it is ..."
5. Psychology; Or, The Science of Mind by Oliver S. Munsell (1880)
"The desires, based as they are immediately upon the emotions, postulate, necessarily,
corresponding prior acts of intellection. Here, however, a decisive ..."
6. The Psychology of Inspiration: An Attempt to Distinguish Religious from by George Lansing Raymond (1908)
"... intellection TO THAT WHICH IS RECEIVED THROUGH THE SUBCONSCIOUS Subconscious
and Conscious Influences Manifested in All Forms of intellection—Value of ..."
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