intellection

1. 1.

   the process of using your mind to consider something carefully

   “thinking always made him frown”

   “she paused for thought”

   Synonymsthinkingthoughtthought processcerebrationmentation

   Broaderhigher cognitive process

   Narrowerfree associationconstructionreasoningline of thoughttrain of thoughtmysticismideationconsiderationexcogitationexplanation

Other forms of intellection

plural

intellections·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about intellection

What does intellection mean?

intellection means "the process of using your mind to consider something carefully".

How many syllables are in intellection?

intellection has 5 syllables: in-tel-lec-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for intellection?

Close synonyms include thinking, thought, thought process, cerebration, mentation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is intellection a common word?

intellection is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.