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Intellect vs Subintellectual - What's the difference?

intellect | subintellectual |

As a noun intellect

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

As an adjective subintellectual is

below the level of 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

    subintellectual

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Below the level of the intellect.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 1, author=Luc Sante, title=Sontag: The Precocious Years, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Even if, later on, she was able to examine and analyze certain aspects of popular culture (as in “Notes on Camp,” 1964), she could undertake such a thing only in service to a higher goal — she was immune to subintellectual cultural pleasures. }}