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mind: knowledge and intellectual ability; "he reads to improve his mind"; "he has a keen intellect" reason: the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil" intellectual: a person who uses the mind creatively
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(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict
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appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature" of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man" cerebral: involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama" a person who uses the mind creatively
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A mental mechanism in which the person engages in excessive abstract thinking to avoid confrontation with conflicts or disturbing feelings.
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is the ability to learn and reason, the capacity for knowledge and understanding, the ability to think abstractly or profoundly. Intellectual intelligence has forty-four faculties under, which you never discard. The five most essential mental faculties (Logic, Reason, Discrimination, Discretion and Discernment) lead to spiritualized intelligence and understanding. Each grade of intellect will interpret according to its kind. ...
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