intelligence
The capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn; the ability to process sentient experience to generate true beliefs with a justified degree of confidence.
That the word intelligence describes something real and that it varies from person to person is as universal and ancient as any understanding about the state of being human.
Not so, however, with Tarzan, the man-child. His life amidst the dangers of the jungle had taught him to meet emergencies with self-confidence, and his higher intelligence resulted in a quickness of mental action far beyond the powers of the apes.
...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
The quality of making use or having made use of such capacities: depth of understanding, mental quickness.
An entity that has such capacities.
The great Intelligences fair / That range above our mortal state, / In circle round the blessed gate, / Received and gave him welcome there.
The living intelligence, the Martian within the hood, was slain and splashed to the four winds of heaven, and the thing was now but a mere intricate device of metal whirling to destruction.
But there are latent powers within man alone that are not yet fully understood and [...] we cannot definitely state what is, and what is not, due to the interference or influence of discarnate intelligences.
He passes beyond the projections and thought forms of his own creation to the wholly other and independent world of the angelic intelligences.
Information, often secret, about an enemy or about hostile activities.
A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
(dated) Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.
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