Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Intellect

Nouns
  • intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle
  • rationality
  • cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties
  • faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius
  • brains, cognitive powers, intellectual powers
  • wit etc. Intelligence, Wisdom
  • ability etc. (skill) Skill
  • wisdom etc. Intelligence, Wisdom
  • spirit, ghost, inner man, heart, breast, bosom, heart's core
  • the Absolute, psyche, subliminal consciousness, supreme principle. brain, organ of thought, seat of thought
  • sensorium, sensory
  • head, headpiece
  • pate, noddle, noggin, skull, scull, pericranium [Med.], cerebrum, cranium, brainpan, sconce, upper story. [in computers] [Comp.] central processing unit, CPU
  • arithmetic and logical unit, ALU. [Science of mind] metaphysics
  • psychics, psychology
  • ideology
  • mental philosophy, moral philosophy
  • philosophy of the mind
  • pneumatology, phrenology
  • craniology [Med.], cranioscopy [Med.]. ideality, idealism
  • transcendentalism, spiritualism
  • immateriality etc. Immateriality
  • universal concept, universal conception. metaphysician, psychologist etc.
Verbs
  • note, notice, mark
  • take notice of, take cognizance of be aware of, be conscious of
  • realize
  • appreciate
  • ruminate etc. (think) Thought
  • fancy etc. (imagine) Imagination.
Adjectives
  • intellectual [Relating to intellect], mental, rational, subjective, metaphysical, nooscopic, spiritual
  • ghostly
  • psychical, psychological
  • cerebral
  • animastic
  • brainy
  • hyperphysical, superphysical
  • subconscious, subliminal. immaterial etc. Immateriality
  • endowed with reason.
Adverbs
  • in petto.
Phrases
  • my mind is my kingdom" [Campbell]
  • stern men with empires in their brains" [Lowell]
  • the mind, the music breathing from her face" [Byron]
  • thou living ray of intellectual Fire" [Falconer].