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intelligence - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | intelligence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to perceive, understand |
| Synonyms: | acumen, agility, alertness, aptitude, brightness, capacity, cleverness, comprehension, discernment, gray matter, intellect, judgment, luminosity, mentality, mind, penetration, perception, perspicacity, quickness, quotient, reason, sagacity, savvy, sense, skill, smarts, subtlety, understanding, wit, IQ, acuity, brainpower, brains, brilliance, coruscation, precocity, the right stuff, trenchancy, what it takes |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, inability, ineptness |
| Main Entry: | intelligence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | secret information |
| Synonyms: | advice, clue, data, dirt, disclosure, facts, knowledge, leak, news, notice, notification, picture, report, rumor, tidings, word*, findings, hot tip, info, inside story, lowdown, tip-off |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | acumen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to understand and reason |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, astuteness, awareness, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination, farsightedness, grasp, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, keenness, perception, perspicacity, refinement, sagacity, sensitivity, shrewdness, smarts*, understanding, vision, wisdom, wit, acuity, brains, brilliance, good taste, percipience, perspicuity, sharpness, smartness |
| Notes: | acumen suggests that keenness relates to a person's mind, whereas acuity suggests that it relates to a person's performance; acumen is something that a person has, whereas acuity is something that a person displays |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, inability, stupidity, denseness, ineptness, obtuseness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cleverness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brightness, ingenuity |
| Synonyms: | ability, adroitness, astuteness, calculation, dexterity, discernment, flair, gift, gumption, intelligence, quickness, sagacity, sense, shrewdness, skill, talent, wisdom, wit, brains, canniness, quick wit, resourcefulness, sharpness, smartness |
| Antonyms: | foolishness, ignorance, stupidity, naievety, senselessness |
| Main Entry: | cognizance/cognition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, apprehension, attention, awareness, comprehension, discernment, insight, intelligence, knowledge, mind, need, note, notice, observance, observation, perception, reasoning, recognition, regard, percipience |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, misunderstanding |
| Main Entry: | common sense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sound judgment |
| Synonyms: | acumen, cool, experience, gumption, horse sense*, horse sense, intelligence, logic, mother wit, practicality, prudence, reason, sense, sound judgment, soundness, wisdom, wit, good reasoning, good sense, levelheadedness, rationality, reasonableness, sensibleness, sound sense, sweet reason, wits |
| Antonyms: | foolishness, impracticality, insanity, unreasonableness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | comprehension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, awareness, capacity, cognizance, conception, discernment, double take*, grasp, intelligence, judgment, ken, knowledge, perception, realization, sense, take*, aha, apperception, prehension, slow take |
| Antonyms: | mistake, misunderstanding, incomprehension, misinterpretation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | espionage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spying |
| Synonyms: | intelligence, reconnaissance, secret service, shadowing, tailing, undercover operations, undercover work, underground activities |
| Main Entry: | genius |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gift of high intellect |
| Synonyms: | ability, accomplishment, acumen, acuteness, adept, aptitude, astuteness, bent, brain, capability, capacity, creativity, discernment, endowment, expert, faculty, flair, grasp, head, imagination, inclination, ingenuity, inspiration, intelligence, knack, mature, originality, perspicacity, power, prodigy, propensity, prowess, reach, sagacity, talent, turn, understanding, virtuoso, wisdom, Einstein, aptness, brilliance, inventiveness, percipience, precocity, superability |
| Antonyms: | idiot, imbecile |
| Main Entry: | guidance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | counseling |
| Synonyms: | advice, auspices, conduct, control, conveyance, direction, government, help, instruction, intelligence, leadership, management, navigation, supervision, teaching, conduction |
| Main Entry: | imagination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power to create in one's mind |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, artistry, awareness, chimera, cognition, conception, creation, creativity, enterprise, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, flight of fancy*, idea, illusion, image, imagery, ingenuity, insight, inspiration, intelligence, invention, notion, originality, realization, sally, supposition, thought, thoughtfulness, verve, vision, wit, creative thought, ideality, inventiveness, mental agility, perceptibility, resourcefulness, unreality, visualization, wittiness |
| Antonyms: | being, entity, existence, material, reality, substance, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | information |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | facts, news |
| Synonyms: | advice, ammo, break*, chapter and verse*, clue, confidence, counsel, cue, data, dirt*, dope*, dossier, earful, enlightenment, erudition, illumination, info, inside story, instruction, intelligence, knowledge, leak, learning, lore, lowdown, material, message, network, notice, notification, orientation, propaganda, report, science, scoop, score, tidings, tip, what's what, whole story, wisdom, word* |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ingenuity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cleverness |
| Synonyms: | ability, adroitness, astuteness, brightness, creativity, cunning, dexterity, flair, genius, gumption, intelligence, shrewdness, skill, talent, wisdom, wit, brains, brilliance, inventiveness, resourcefulness, smartness |
| Main Entry: | intellect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | capability of the mind; someone with capable mind |
| Synonyms: | ability, acumen, comprehension, egghead*, genius, intellectual, intelligence, intuition, judgment, mentality, mind, psyche, pundit, reason, savvy, sense, smarts, thinker, understanding, brains, cerebration, intellectuality, what it takes, wits |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | knowledge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's understanding; information |
| Synonyms: | ability, acquaintance, apprehension, awareness, cognition, comprehension, consciousness, dirt*, discernment, doctrine, dogma, dope*, education, enlightenment, erudition, expertise, facts, familiarity, goods*, grasp, insight, instruction, intelligence, judgment, know-how*, learning, light*, lore, observation, philosophy, picture, power*, proficiency, recognition, scholarship, science, scoop*, substance, theory, tuition, wisdom, accomplishments, attainments, inside story, principles, schooling |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | media |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | communication by publication or broadcast |
| Synonyms: | announcement, cable, communications, correspondence, disclosure, expression, intelligence, news, radio, television, announcing, publishing |
| Main Entry: | news |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | information, revelation |
| Synonyms: | account, advice, announcement, broadcast, bulletin, cable, cognizance, communication, copy, data, description, disclosure, discovery, dispatch, enlightenment, exposé, hearsay, intelligence, knowledge, leak, message, narration, news flash, recital, recognition, release, report, rumor, scandal, scoop*, specification, statement, story, telecast, telegram, telling, tidings*, word*, communiqué, eye-opener, front-page news, headlines, itemization, lowdown, particularization, the goods |
| Antonyms: | history |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rumor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talk about supposed truth |
| Synonyms: | breeze*, canard, comment, cry, dispatch, fabrication, falsehood, fame, fiction, gossip, grapevine*, hearsay, hoax, innuendo, intelligence, invention, lie, news, notoriety, report, rumble, scandal, scuttlebutt*, story, suggestion, supposition, tale, tattle, tidings, whisper, wire*, word, back-fence talk, bruit, earful, repute |
| Antonyms: | truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sagacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wisdom |
| Synonyms: | acumen, astuteness, common sense, comprehension, discernment, discrimination, enlightenment, experience, foresight, insight, intelligence, judgment, knowledge, perspicacity, practicality, prudence, sapience, sense, shrewdness, understanding, brains, clear thinking, good judgment, levelheadedness, perceptiveness, sageness |
| Main Entry: | sanity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental health; soundness of judgment |
| Synonyms: | acumen, balance, common sense, comprehension, intelligence, lucidity, normality, prudence, reason, sagacity, sense, soundness, stability, understanding, wit, clear mind, good judgment, healthy mind, judiciousness, levelheadedness, lucidness, marbles, rationality, reasonableness, right mind, saneness, sound mind |
| Antonyms: | insanity, instability, madness, craziness, unsoundness |
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