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noun knowledge and intellectual ability
noun the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
noun a person who uses the mind creatively
originBorrowed from Late Latin intellēctus (“understanding, intellect”), from Latin intellegō (“understand; reason”), from inter (“between, among”) + legō (“read”), with connotation of bind.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0