Associations to the word «Intellection»

Wiktionary

INTELLECTION, noun. (uncountable) The mental activity or process of grasping with the intellect; apprehension by the mind; understanding.
INTELLECTION, noun. (countable) A particular act of grasping by means of the intellect.
INTELLECTION, noun. (countable) The mental content of an act of grasping by means of the intellect, as a thought, idea, or conception.

Dictionary definition

INTELLECTION, noun. The process of using your mind to consider something carefully; "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope