#450.  Intellect. —­ N. intellect, mind, understanding, reason,
thinking principle; rationality; cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties; faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius; brains, cognitive powers, intellectual powers; wit &c. 498; ability &c. (skill) 698; wisdom &c. 498; Vernunft[Ger], Verstand[Ger].
     soul, spirit, ghost, inner man, heart, breast, bosom, penetralia
mentis[Lat], divina particula aurae[Lat], heart’s core; the Absolute, psyche, subliminal consciousness, supreme principle.
     brain, organ of thought, seat of thought; sensorium[obs3], sensory;
head, headpiece; pate, noddle[obs3], noggin, skull, scull, pericranium[Med], cerebrum, cranium, brainpan[obs3], sconce, upper story.
     [in computers] central processing unit, CPU; arithmetic and logical
unit, ALU.
     [Science of mind] metaphysics; psychics, psychology; ideology; mental
philosophy, moral philosophy; philosophy of the mind; pneumatology[obs3], phrenology; craniology[Med], cranioscopy[Med].
     ideality, idealism; transcendentalism, spiritualism; immateriality &c.
317; universal concept, universal conception.
     metaphysician, psychologist &c. 
     V. note, notice, mark; take notice of, take cognizance of be aware of,
be conscious of; realize; appreciate; ruminate &c. (think) 451; fancy &c. (imagine) 515. 
     Adj. intellectual[Relating to intellect], mental, rational,
subjective, metaphysical, nooscopic[obs3], spiritual; ghostly; psychical[obs3], psychological; cerebral; animastic[obs3]; brainy; hyperphysical[obs3], superphysical[obs3]; subconscious, subliminal.
     immaterial &c. 317; endowed with reason. 
     Adv. in petto. 
     Phr. ens rationis [Lat]; frons est animi janua [Lat][Cicero]; locos y
ninos dicen la verdad [Sp]; mens sola loco non exulat [Lat][Ovid]; “my mind is my kingdom” [Campbell]; “stern men with empires in their brains” [Lowell]; “the mind, the music breathing from her face” [Byron]; “thou living ray of intellectual Fire” [Falconer].

—­ differentiate between instinct and intuition.  Intuition is reserved
for people. —­
     #450a.  Absence or want of Intellect.—­ N. absence of intellect, want
of intellect &c. 450; imbecility &c. 499.:  brutality, brute force.
     instinct, brute instinct, stimulus-response loop, conditioned
response, instinctive reaction, Pavlovian response.
     mimicry, aping (imitation) 19.
     moron, imbecile, idiot; fool &c. 501; dumb animal; vegetable, brain-
dead. 
     Adj. unendowed with reason, void of reason; thoughtless; vegetative;
moronic, idiotic, brainless [all pejorative]. 
     Adv. instinctively, like Pavlov’s dog; vegetatively. 
     V. mimic, ape (imitate) 19; respond instinctively.