Psychology vs Intellectual - What's the difference?
psychology | intellectual |
(uncountable) The study of the human mind.
(uncountable) The study of human behavior.
(uncountable) The study of animal behavior.
(countable) The mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity.
* 1970 , Mary M. Luke, A Crown for Elizabeth , page 8:
* 1969 , Victor Alba, The Latin Americans , page 42:
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 nouns the difference between psychology and intellectual
is that psychology is (uncountable) the study of the human mind while intellectual is an intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.As an adjective intellectual is
belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.psychology
English
(wikipedia psychology)Noun
- For generations, historians have conjectured everything from a warped psychology to a deformed body as accounting for Elizabeth's preferred spinsterhood...
- In the United States, the psychology of a laborer, a farmer, a businessman does not differ in any important respect.
Derived terms
* * *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 ...
