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(uncountable) The mental activity or process of grasping with the intellect; apprehension by the mind; understanding. / (countable) A particular act of grasping by means of the intellect.

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intellection

Noun

uncountable countable

(uncountable) The mental activity or process of grasping with the intellect; apprehension by the mind; understanding. / (countable) A particular act of grasping by means of the intellect.

Japanese Meaning

知性による把握の精神的プロセス、すなわち心で理解する行為 / 知性を用いた認識、理解の行為（個々の行為として捉えられる場合）

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Her quiet moments of intellection often led to creative breakthroughs.

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彼女の静かな知的把握のひとときは、しばしば創造的な突破口につながった。

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(uncountable) The mental activity or process of grasping with the intellect; apprehension by the mind; understanding.

These books will fill, and well fill, certain stretches of life […] But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influences of abysmic Nature, or its affinities in literature or human society, and the soul resents the keenest mere intellection, they will not be sought for.

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