All intellection synonyms

noun intellection

• idea — any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.
• concept — A concept is an idea or abstract principle.
• perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
• conception — A conception of something is an idea that you have of it in your mind.
• theory — a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena: Einstein's theory of relativity. Synonyms: principle, law, doctrine.
• image — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
• thought — Informal. the act or a period of thinking: I want to sit down and give it a good think.
• approach — When you approach something, you get closer to it.
• notion — a general understanding; vague or imperfect conception or idea of something: a notion of how something should be done.
• view — an instance of seeing or beholding; visual inspection.
• concept — A concept is an idea or abstract principle.
• interpretation — the act of interpreting; elucidation; explication: This writer's work demands interpretation.
• appreciation — Appreciation of something is the recognition and enjoyment of its good qualities.
• realization — the making or being made real of something imagined, planned, etc.
• figure — a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
• idea — any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.
• vision — the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight.
• belief — Belief is a feeling of certainty that something exists, is true, or is good.
• memory — the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences.
• recollection — the act of re-collecting or the state of being re-collected.
• suspicion — act of suspecting.
• 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.
• opinion — a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty.
• knowledge — acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition: knowledge of many things.
• sentiment — an attitude toward something; regard; opinion.
• understanding — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
• assumption — If you make an assumption that something is true or will happen, you accept that it is true or will happen, often without any real proof.
• suggestion — the act of suggesting.
• viewpoint — a place affording a view of something; position of observation: to sketch a river from the viewpoint of a bluff.
• taste — to try or test the flavor or quality of (something) by taking some into the mouth: to taste food.
• attention — If you give someone or something your attention, you look at it, listen to it, or think about it carefully.
• attitude — Your attitude to something is the way that you think and feel about it, especially when this shows in the way you behave.
• recognition — an act of recognizing or the state of being recognized.
• feeling — a quality of an object that is perceived by feeling or touching: the soft feel of cotton.
• logic — the science that investigates the principles governing correct or reliable inference.
• reasoning — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
• impression — a strong effect produced on the intellect, feelings, conscience, etc.
• abstraction — An abstraction is a general idea rather than one relating to a particular object, person, or situation.
• brainchild — Someone's brainchild is an idea or invention that they have thought up or created.
• apprehension — Apprehension is a feeling of fear that something bad may happen.
• slant — to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
• supposition — the act of supposing.
• twist — to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
• conceit — Conceit is very great pride in your abilities or achievements that other people feel is too great.
• hypothesis — a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts.
• consideration — Consideration is careful thought about something.
• wrinkle — an ingenious trick or device; a clever innovation: a new advertising wrinkle.
• conceptualization — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
• fancy — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
• inkling — a slight suggestion or indication; hint; intimation: They hadn't given us an inkling of what was going to happen.