intellection
- n the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
- In that process of intellection he is classically Americanthe natural man whose intelligence lies not in book learning but in right instincts.
- Down front, standing in the third row, the world-famous recluse is silhouetted against the light, angular with shy intellection, gray hair en brosse, the jug ears set low, long .
- It was an irony lost on no one, except perhaps her, that she made those arguments in paragraphs that were marvels of strenuous intellection.