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Intellect vs Intellective - What's the difference?

intellect | intellective |

As a noun intellect

is the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty (uncountable)

As an adjective intellective is

of, related to, or caused by the intellect.

intellect

English

Noun

  • the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty (uncountable)
    • Intellect is one of man's greatest powers.
  • the capacity of that faculty (in a particular person) (uncountable)
    • They were chosen because of their outstanding intellect .
  • a person who has that faculty to a great degree
    • Some of the world's leading intellects were meeting there.

    Synonyms

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    Related terms

    * intellectual * intellectualism * intellectualize * intelligence * intelligent * intelligentsia * intelligible

    See also

    * mind

    intellective

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, related to, or caused by the intellect.
  • * 2000 , Thomas Albert Sebeok, Marcel Danesi, The Forms of Meaning: Modeling Systems Theory and Semiotic Analysis ,
    • Intellective''' codes'' are those that have been designed to organize knowledge about some field, functioning as mental templates for understanding the world. A perfect example of an ' intellective code is that of trigonometry,
  • Having the capacity to reason and understand.
  • * 1907 , , Volume 1: Aachen–Assize,
    • It is to be found in the seventh anathema of Pope Damasus in the Council of Rome, 381. "We pronounce anathema against them who say that the Word of God is in the human flesh in lieu and place of the human rational and intellective''' soul. For, the Word of God is the Son Himself. Neither did He come in the flesh to replace, but rather to assume and preserve from sin and save the rational and '''intellective soul of man."
  • * 2000 , James B. Reichmann, Evolution, Animal 'Rights,' and The Environment , CUA Press (2000), ISBN 0813209544, page 219:
    • The human is, after all, the only truly intellective animal, and the language he employs is, as Bickerton observes, like no other form of animal communication.