Intellective vs Intellectual - What's the difference?
intellective | intellectual |
Of, related to, or caused by the intellect.
* 2000 , Thomas Albert Sebeok, Marcel Danesi, The Forms of Meaning: Modeling Systems Theory and Semiotic Analysis ,
Having the capacity to reason and understand.
* 1907 , , Volume 1: Aachen–Assize,
* 2000 , James B. Reichmann, Evolution, Animal 'Rights,' and The Environment , CUA Press (2000), ISBN 0813209544,
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):
An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
(archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
As adjectives the difference between intellective and intellectual
is that intellective is of, related to, or caused by the intellect while intellectual is belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.As a noun intellectual is
an intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.intellective
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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,
- 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."
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- 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.
intellectual
Alternative forms
* intellectuall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- I deem not profitless those fleeting moods / Of shadowy exultation; not for this, / That they are kindred to our purer mind / And intellectual life ...