Cerebral vs Intellectual - What's the difference?
cerebral | intellectual |
(anatomy, medicine) Of, or relating to the brain or cerebral cortex of the brain.
Intellectual rather than emotional.
(linguistics, obsolete) Retroflex.
Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.
Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.
Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.
Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.
(archaic, poetic) Spiritual.
* 1805 , William Wordsworth, The Prelude , Book II, lines 331-334 (eds. Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, & Stephen Gill, published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1979):
An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
(archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
As adjectives the difference between cerebral and intellectual
is that cerebral is of, or relating to the brain or cerebral cortex of the brain while intellectual is belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.As a noun intellectual is
an intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.cerebral
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* intellectuall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- I deem not profitless those fleeting moods / Of shadowy exultation; not for this, / That they are kindred to our purer mind / And intellectual life ...