intellection
Example Sentences
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Even its harshest critics had to acknowledge its ambition; it took on Argentina’s Dirty War, gaming culture and high theory, wrangling with the problem of how to dramatize intellection and laying bare a fascinating mind.
From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2021
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
For like ourselves they have their fashions in clothes; their peculiar speech; their own hidden 163 means of intellection, and, to some extent, of imagination: but flounces they have not, they know not.
From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.