Crossword clues for intellectuality
intellectuality
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intellectuality \In`tel*lec`tu*al"i*ty\, n. [L. intellectualitas: cf. F. intellectualit['e].] Intellectual powers; possession of intellect; quality of being intellectual.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "the part of the mind which understands; understanding, intellect;" from Old French intellectualité and directly from Late Latin intellectualitas, from Latin intellectualis (see intellectual).\n\n\n
Wiktionary
n. The characteristic of being intellectual.
Usage examples of "intellectuality".
The woman who represses her intellectuality, because she has accepted the same dichotomy, and is left with the same bitterness.
One of the few memorable things that Bulwer said, who said so many quotable things, was that pure intellectuality is the devil, and on his plane Charley Steele comes near being pure intellectual.
His egocentricity encapsulates the mockery, fantasy, and intellectuality that place him strongly in the Lucianic tradition.
Joseph Campbell, the author of the present book, epitomizes the quality of communication and intellectuality required for The Forum.
Her father was a Derbyshire Baronet of the old school, she was a woman of the new school, full of intellectuality, and heavy, nerve-worn with consciousness.
The more cultivated, specialized, overtired that Castalian intellectuality became, the more the world inclined to let the Province be and to regard it not as a necessity, as daily bread, but as a foreign body, something to be a little proud of, like a precious antique which for the time being the owners would not like to give up or give away, but which they would happily keep stored in the attic.
Even while repugning the charges of intellectuality, Shimrod still comported himself by the precepts of gallantry, which were uncompromising in such cases.
It is the ultimate, subtlest expression of our Castalian type of intellectuality.