Intellect vs Elect - What's the difference?
intellect | elect |
the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty (uncountable)
the capacity of that faculty (in a particular person) (uncountable)
a person who has that faculty to a great degree
One chosen or set apart.
(uncountable, theology) In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.
* Bible, Isaiah xlii. 1
* Bible, Luke xviii. 7
To choose or make a decision (to do something)
To choose (a candidate) in an election
(used only after the noun) Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 16
Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
* Spenser
* Bible, 1 Timothy v. 21
As nouns the difference between intellect and elect
is that intellect is the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty (uncountable) while elect is one chosen or set apart.As a verb elect is
to choose or make a decision (to do something).As an adjective elect is
(used only after the noun) who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.intellect
English
Noun
- Intellect is one of man's greatest powers.
- They were chosen because of their outstanding intellect .
- Some of the world's leading intellects were meeting there.
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* mindelect
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect , in whom my soul delighteth.
- Shall not God avenge his won elect ?
Antonyms
* reprobateVerb
(en verb)Adjective
(-)- He is the President-elect .
- She began almost to feel a dislike of Edward; and it ended, as every feeling must end with her, by carrying back her thoughts to Willoughby, whose manners formed a contrast sufficiently striking to those of his brother elect .
- colours quaint elect
- the elect angels