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in⋅tel⋅lec⋅tion

   [in-tl-ek-shuhn]
–noun
1. the action or process of understanding; the exercise of the intellect; reasoning.
2. a particular act of the intellect.
3. a conception or idea as the result of such an act; notion; thought.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME < ML intellēctiōn- (s. of intellēctiō). See intellect, -ion
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in·tel·lec·tion     (ĭn'tl-ěk'shən)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. The act or process of using the intellect; thinking or reasoning.
  2. A thought or an idea.


[Middle English intelleccioun, understanding, from Latin intellēctiō, intellēctiōn-, synecdoche, from intellēctus, intellect; see intellect.]

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intellection

noun
the process of using your mind to consider something carefully; "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought" [syn: thinking] 

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Intellection

In`tel*lec"tion\, n. [L. intellectio synecdoche: cf. F. intellection.] A mental act or process; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itself. --Hickok.

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