intellect

The ability to learn and reason; the capacity for knowledge and understanding.

A person’s individual ability to think and reason.

A person of great intellectual ability.

The understanding; the sum of all the cognitive faculties except sense, or except sense and imagination.

Mind collectively; current or collective intelligence: as, the intellect of the time.

plural Wits; senses; mind: as, disordered in his intellects.

The part or faculty of the human mind by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.

The capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; mental capacity.

A particular mind, especially a person of high intelligence.