English-German translations for intellect

• Intellekt der
  Man braucht aber auch den Pessimismus des Intellekts. But pessimism of the intellect is also needed.
  Ich glaube daran, daß die Gentechnik eine Technik des Intellekts ist, eine Zukunftstechnologie mit besonderer Bedeutung für die Medizin. I believe that genetic engineering is an intellectual technology, a technology of the future, with special significance for medicine.
• Vernunft die

Definition of intellect

• the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty ''''
• the capacity of that faculty ''''
• a person who has that faculty to a great degree

Examples

• Intellect is one of mans greatest powers.
• They were chosen because of their outstanding intellect.
• Some of the worlds leading intellects were meeting there.

Related words

• intellectual
• intellectually
• intellectualistic
• intellectualism
• intellectualist
• pseudointellectual
• intellectualize
• anti-intellectual
• overintellectualize