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intellection

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Synonyms and Antonyms of intellection

1 something imagined or pictured in the mind

notebooks filled with his intellections on an amazing array of topics

Synonyms of intellection

abstraction, cogitation, concept, conception, idea, image, impression, mind's eye, notion, picture, thought

Words Related to intellection

apprehension, premonition, presentiment

preconception, prejudice, prepossession

chimera, delusion, hallucination, illusion, phantasm (also fantasm)

caprice, conceit, fancy, freak, kink, vagary, whim

cognition, observation, perception, reflection

assumption, belief, conclusion, conviction

conjecture, guess, hunch, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmise, theory

brainchild, brainstorm, brain wave, inspiration

Near Antonyms of intellection

actuality, fact, reality

2 the thought processes that have been established as leading to valid solutions to problems

ever since Decartes famously declared, "I think, therefore I am," people have tended to regard acts of conscious intellection as proof of their own existence

Synonyms of intellection

logic, ratiocination, reason, reasoning, sense

Words Related to intellection

cogency, coherence, logicality, logicalness, rationality, rationalness

convincingness, persuasiveness

syllogism, synthesis

analysis, dissection

deduction, induction

argumentation, disputation

Near Antonyms of intellection

illogic, incoherence

absurdity, brainlessness, insanity, irrationality, nonsensicalness, preposterousness, senselessness

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