Intelligence vs. Intellectual
Difference Between Intelligence and Intellectual
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.
Intellectualadjective
Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive.
intellectual powers, activities, etc.Intelligencenoun
(countable) An entity that has such capacities.
Intellectualadjective
Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity
an intellectual personIntelligencenoun
Information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
Intellectualadjective
Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect
intellectual employmentsIntelligencenoun
(countable) A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
Intellectualadjective
Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind.
intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophyIntelligencenoun
(dated) Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.
Intellectualadjective
Spiritual.
Intelligencenoun
the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience
Intellectualnoun
An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
Intelligencenoun
a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy
Intellectualnoun
(archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
Intelligencenoun
secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy);
we sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverageIntellectualnoun
a person who uses the mind creatively
Intelligencenoun
new information about specific and timely events;
they awaited news of the outcomeIntellectualadjective
of or relating to the intellect;
his intellectual careerIntelligencenoun
the operation of gathering information about an enemy
Intellectualadjective
of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind;
intellectual problemsthe triumph of the rational over the animal side of manIntellectualadjective
appealing to or using the intellect;
satire is an intellectual weaponintellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific laborhas tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed peoplecoldly intellectualsort of the intellectual typeintellectual literatureIntellectualadjective
involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct;
a cerebral approach to the problemcerebral drama
