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Intellectual vs Experiential - What's the difference?

intellectual | experiential |

As adjectives the difference between intellectual and experiential

is that intellectual is belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc while experiential is of, related to, encountered in, or derived from experience.

As a noun intellectual

is an intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.

intellectual

English

(wikipedia intellectual) (Webster 1913)

Alternative forms

* intellectuall (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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):
    • I deem not profitless those fleeting moods / Of shadowy exultation; not for this, / That they are kindred to our purer mind / And intellectual life ...

    Antonyms

    * non-intellectual

    Derived terms

    * anti-intellectual * intellectual capital * intellectual disability * intellectual honesty * intellectuality * intellectual journey * intellectual property * intellectual rights * organic intellectual

    Related terms

    * intellect * intellectualize * intelligence * intelligent * overintellectualize

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
  • (archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.

    • Derived terms

    * public intellectual

    See also

    * intelligentsia * egghead * nerd * geek * highbrow

    experiential

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, related to, encountered in, or derived from experience.
    • Atheists argue that there is no experiential confirmation for the existence of a god.
    Each color has a unique experiential quality.

    Derived terms

    * experiential education * experiential innovation * experientialism * experientialist * experiential knowledge * experientially * experiential philosopher * experiential philosophy * experiential platform * experiential world