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intellection (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 intellections)

1. (uncountable) The mental activity or process of grasping with the intellect; apprehension by the mind; understanding.
   • 1892, Walt Whitman, “Notes Left Over: Emerson's Books”, in Complete Prose Works‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 1935, Samuel Beckett, Watt:

     None of Mr. Knott's gestures could be called characteristic, unless perhaps that which consisted in the simultaneous obturation of the facial cavities, the thumbs in the mouth, the forefingers in the ears, the little fingers in the nostrils, the third fingers in the eyes and the second fingers, free in a crisis to promote intellection, laid along the temples.