Intellect vs Identity - What's the difference?
intellect | identity |
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
Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
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The difference or character that marks off an individual from the rest of the same kind, selfhood.
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A name or persona—the mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
Sense of who one is.
(algebra, computing) Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
(algebra) An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this, second element.
As nouns the difference between intellect and identity
is that intellect is the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty (uncountable) while identity is sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.intellect
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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
* mindidentity
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(wikipedia identity)Noun
(identities)- This criminal has taken on several identities .
- I've been through so many changes, I have no sense of identity .
- This nation has a strong identity .