Definition for Intellection:

• The act of the understanding.

Synonyms for Intellection:

• n.

  •cerebration (noun)
  • cerebration.
  •concept (noun)
  • brainchild,
  • supposition,
  • thought,
  • abstraction,
  • view,
  • conceit,
  • theory,
  • twist,
  • slant,
  • approach,
  • apprehension,
  • consideration.
  •conception (noun)
  • meditation,
  • realization,
  • exposition,
  • Meditating,
  • clue,
  • inkling,
  • Fancying,
  • fancy,
  • Cogitating,
  • interpretation,
  • Communing,
  • dreaming,
  • musing,
  • explanation,
  • philosophizing,
  • Speculating,
  • picture,
  • representation,
  • Concentrating,
  • plan,
  • Deliberating,
  • cognition,
  • design,
  • comprehension,
  • Envisaging,
  • apperception,
  • appreciation,
  • speculation,
  • version,
  • Considering,
  • Imagining,
  • concept.
  •image (noun)
  • idea,
  • vision,
  • figure,
  • Phantasm,
  • construct.
  •perception (noun)
  • feeling,
  • acumen,
  • sagacity,
  • recognition,
  • viewpoint,
  • attention,
  • attitude,
  • light,
  • study,
  • perspicacity,
  • grasp,
  • Apprehending,
  • taste,
  • observation,
  • Realizing.
  •reason (noun)
  • moderation,
  • rationality,
  • bounds,
  • inference,
  • reasonableness,
  • rationalism,
  • limits,
  • brain,
  • saneness,
  • sound mind,
  • mind,
  • argumentation,
  • Brains,
  • wisdom,
  • propriety,
  • sens,
  • generalization,
  • sanity,
  • lucidity,
  • intellect,
  • senses,
  • ratiocination,
  • mentality,
  • sensibleness,
  • rationalization,
  • induction,
  • wit,
  • dialectics,
  • soundness,
  • generalizations,
  • deduction,
  • reasoning,
  • logic,
  • marbles.
  •thought (noun)
  • deliberation,
  • Debating,
  • pondering,
  • concentration,
  • contemplation,
  • wistfulness,
  • lucubration,
  • envisioning,
  • thinking,
  • engrossment,
  • daydreaming,
  • evaluation,
  • imagination,
  • brain work,
  • preoccupation,
  • weighing,
  • brooding,
  • absorption,
  • calculation,
  • appraisal,
  • cogitation,
  • analysis,
  • reflection.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • brain wave,
  • conception,
  • conceptualization,
  • higher cognitive process,
  • hypothesis,
  • image,
  • impression,
  • in sight,
  • mental picture,
  • notion,
  • perception,
  • reason,
  • trope,
  • wrinkle,
  • Re-presentation,
  • intellections,
  • imaginings,
  • tropes,
  • big idea,
  • conceptualizations,
  • dreamings,
  • fool notion,
  • mental grasp,
  • mental pictures,
  • telltales.

Antonyms for Intellection:

• n.

  • concept
    concrete, reality, proof, being.
  • conception
    abortion, death, fact, misunderstanding, truth, ignorance.
  • image
    entity.
  • impression
    physicality, materiality.
  • notion
    stupidity, unconsciousness, need.
  • perception
    thing, misconception.
  • reason
    misinterpretation, mistake, disbelief, unsoundness, body.
  • Other antonyms:
    insanity, actuality, brainlessness, absurdity, senselessness, incoherence, illogic, preposterousness, nonsensicalness, irrationality.

Intellection Sentence Examples:

• The unusual course that the association of ideas sometimes takes, the flow of words and of thoughts at certain moments, the passing difficulty of speech, the recurrence of tormenting thoughts, the disappearance of expressions or ideas from the memory, even the increase of mental activity and of every kind of motor reaction as well as many other phenomena of intellection, can be satisfactorily explained on this hypothesis.

• As a matter of fact, we have ideas that are not copies of any one impression, but a binding together, colligation, or intellection of several impressions.