intellection

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The mental activity or process of grasping with the intellect; apprehension by the mind; understanding. uncountable
    — These books will fill, and well fill, certain stretches of life […] But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influences of abysmic Nature, or its affinities in literature or human society, and the soul resents the keenest mere intellection, they will not be sought for.
  2. A particular act of grasping by means of the intellect. countable
    — Our senses, our instincts, our intellections are all instruments of adaptation.
  3. The mental content of an act of grasping by means of the intellect, as a thought, idea, or conception. countable
    — When Banerjee talks about the artist's thinking about the music, she is not referring to an intellection about the mechanics of technique.

词形变化

intellections plural

词汇关系

相关词
intellect

词源

Etymology tree
Latin intellectiō, intellectiōnembor.
English intellection
Borrowed from Latin intellectiō, intellectiōnem.
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