All intellect synonyms

noun intellect

• intuition — direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process; immediate apprehension.
• ability — Your ability to do something is the fact that you can do it.
• genius — an exceptional natural capacity of intellect, especially as shown in creative and original work in science, art, music, etc.: the genius of Mozart. Synonyms: intelligence, ingenuity, wit; brains.
• intelligence — capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.
• acumen — keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a situation; shrewdness
• savvy — experienced, knowledgable, and well-informed; shrewd (often used in combination): consumers who are savvy about prices; a tech-savvy entrepreneur.
• judgment — an act or instance of judging.
• smarts — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
• pundit — a learned person, expert, or authority.
• mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
• sense — any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body: My sense of smell tells me that dinner is ready.
• mentality — mental capacity or endowment: a person of average mentality.
• intellectual — appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
• understanding — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
• psyche — to intimidate or frighten psychologically, or make nervous (often followed by out): to psych out the competition.
• reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
• egghead — an intellectual.
• comprehension — Comprehension is the ability to understand something.
• wits — the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee.
• thinker — French Le Penseur. a bronze statue (1879–89) by Rodin.
• brains — an animal's brain, cooked and eaten as food
• cerebration — the act of thinking; consideration; thought
• intellectuality — the quality or state of being intellectual.
• what it takes — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
• brain — Your brain is the organ inside your head that controls your body's activities and enables you to think and to feel things such as heat and pain.
• brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.