intellective
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, related to, or caused by the intellect.
adj
Having the capacity to reason and understand.
Example Sentences
- "Intellective codes are those that have been designed to organize knowledge about some field, functioning as mental templates for understanding the world. A perfect example of an intellective code is that of trigonometry, […]"
- "1907, Apollinarianism, article in Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen–Assize, It is to be found in the seventh anathema of Pope Damasus in the Council of Rome, 381. "We pronounce anathema against them who say that the Word of God is in the human flesh in lieu and place of the human rational and intellective soul. For, the Word of God is the Son Himself. Neither did He come in the flesh to replace, but rather to assume and preserve from sin and save the rational and intellective soul of man.""
- "The human is, after all, the only truly intellective animal, and the language he employs is, as Bickerton observes, like no other form of animal communication."
Etymology
From Middle French intellectif and its etymon the post-Classical Latin intellēctīvus, from intellegō.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: intellectif
Inflected Forms
more intellective (comparative)
most intellective (superlative)