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su·per·in·tel·li·gence | \ ˌsü-pər-in-ˈte-lə-jən(t)s 
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\ plural superintelligences
Definition of superintelligence
1 : an entity that surpasses humans in overall intelligence or in some particular measure of intelligence
A speed superintelligence could do everything a human mind could do, but much faster.— Nick Bostrom also : the intelligence displayed by such an entity the development of machine superintelligence
2 : an extremely or extraordinarily high degree of intelligence
displayed superintelligence in mathematics … the first of a planned trilogy about teens whose empathic abilities give them an emotional superintelligence.— Terry Hong
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The first known use of superintelligence was circa 1822
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