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The capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn; the ability to process sentient experience to generate true beliefs with a justified degree of confidence.uncountable
- 1936 Feb., F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack-Up", Esquire: ...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
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The capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn; the ability to process sentient experience to generate true beliefs with a justified degree of confidence.; An individual's expected relative performance in a cognitive test.countableuncountable
- intelligence quotient
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The capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn; the ability to process sentient experience to generate true beliefs with a justified degree of confidence.; The quality of making use or having made use of such capacities: depth of understanding, mental quickness.uncountable
- From a religious point of view, a bodhisattva with sharp faculties and great intelligence can cause a tremendous upheaval if he or she misuses that power under the influence of negative emotions, like attachment and hatred.
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An entity that has such capacities.countable
- The great Intelligences fair That range above our mortal state, In circle round the blessed gate, Received and gave him welcome there.
- The living intelligence, the Martian within the hood, was slain and splashed to the four winds of heaven, and the thing was now but a mere intricate device of metal whirling to destruction.
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Information, often secret, about an enemy or about hostile activities.uncountable
- After the subjugation of Spain, while Cæsar was meditating an expedition against the Dacians and Parthians, he was sent before him to Apollonia, where he applied himself to his studies; until receiving intelligence that his uncle was murder
- Their lack of good intelligence also meant that they vastly overestimated the size of their foes for far too long, hails of armor-piercing shells doing comparatively little damage compared to the high explosive that they should have been us
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Information, often secret, about an enemy or about hostile activities.; A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.countable
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Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.countabledateduncountable
- He liv’d rather in a fair Intelligence than any Friendſhip with the Favourites;[…]
syn. brain · brains · cleverness · head · brightness · esprit · intellect · intelligence · mind · nous · psyche · reason
ant. blockheadedness · boneheadedness · density · denseness · dimness · dimwittedness · doltery · dullness