Intellectual vs Philosophe - What's the difference?
intellectual | philosophe |
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.
any of the leading philosophers or intellectuals of the 18th century French Enlightenment.
(pejorative) an incompetent philosopher; a philosophaster.
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As nouns the difference between intellectual and philosophe
is that intellectual is an intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters while philosophe is any of the leading philosophers or intellectuals of the 18th century french enlightenment.As a adjective intellectual
is belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.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 ...
