Intelligence vs. Cunning
Difference Between Intelligence and Cunning
Intelligencenoun
Capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn.
Cunningadjective
Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
Intelligencenoun
(countable) An entity that has such capacities.
Cunningadjective
(obsolete) Skillful, artful.
Intelligencenoun
Information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
Cunningadjective
(obsolete) Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious.
cunning workIntelligencenoun
(countable) A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
Cunningadjective
Cute, appealing.
a cunning little boy''Intelligencenoun
(dated) Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.
Cunningnoun
Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity.
Intelligencenoun
the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience
Cunningnoun
Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit.
Intelligencenoun
a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy
Cunningnoun
The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.
Intelligencenoun
secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy);
we sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverageCunningnoun
The natural wit or instincts of an animal.
the cunning of the fox or hareIntelligencenoun
new information about specific and timely events;
they awaited news of the outcomeCunningnoun
(obsolete) Knowledge; learning; special knowledge (sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge).
Intelligencenoun
the operation of gathering information about an enemy
Cunningnoun
shrewdness in deception;
as cunning as a foxCunningnoun
shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
Cunningnoun
drafty artfulness (especially in deception)
Cunningadjective
attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness;
a cute kid with pigtailsa cute little apartmentcunning kittensa cunning babyCunningadjective
marked by skill in deception;
cunning men often pass for wisedeep political machinationsa foxy schemea slick evasive answersly as a foxtricky Dika wily old attorneyCunningadjective
showing inventiveness and skill;
a clever gadgetthe cunning maneuvers leading to his successan ingenious solution to the problem
