Intelligence vs. Intellectual

Intelligence vs. Intellectual — Is There a Difference?
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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 person

Intelligencenoun

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 employments
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Intelligencenoun

(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" philosophy

Intelligencenoun

(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.

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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 coverage

Intellectualnoun

a person who uses the mind creatively

Intelligencenoun

new information about specific and timely events;

they awaited news of the outcome

Intellectualadjective

of or relating to the intellect;

his intellectual career

Intelligencenoun

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 man

Intellectualadjective

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 literature

Intellectualadjective

involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct;

a cerebral approach to the problemcerebral drama