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intellectual
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intellectual as in:  intellectual stimulation

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    Einstein's intellectual achievements and originality have made the word Einstein synonymous with genius.
    intellectual = relating to the use of intelligence
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    I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.  (source)
    intellectual = intelligent
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    Universities are no longer the intellectual centers of the country.  (source)
    intellectual = relating to intelligent consideration of ideas
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    His singular intellectual acuity, lost in the beatings from the Quack, returned to him.  (source)
    intellectual = related to intelligence
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    In his view an intellectually creative person must do physical labour in order to assess his own capabilities properly, and so he did his quota of work, although it interrupted his studies.  (source)
    intellectually = in a manner that relates to intelligence
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    This despair of his not only unmasked the conceited lecturer and dismissed with its irony the matter at hand, the expectant attitude of the public, the somewhat presumptuous title under which the lecture was announced—no, the Steppenwolf's look pierced our whole epoch, its whole overwrought activity, the whole surge and strife, the whole vanity, the whole superficial play of a shallow, opinionated intellectuality.†  (source)
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    He can't step away from it, can't intellectualize it, because it's still too close, too visceral.†  (source)
    intellectualize = treat something in an educated, intellectual way -- often excluding emotional or practical considerations
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    Is it impossible to combine the hardiness of these savages with the intellectualness of the civilized man?†  (source)
    intellectualness = the quality of relating to intelligence
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    His intellectualized morality couldn't let a decent man be killed for the strategy.†  (source)
    intellectualized = treated something in an educated, intellectual way -- often excluding emotional or practical considerations
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
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    It is not about intellectualizing God's commands, but about internalizing his truth within my heart as well as my head, an understanding so deep and intimate that it affects not only my thinking, but my behavior as well.†  (source)
    intellectualizing = treating something in an educated, intellectual way -- often excluding emotional or practical considerations
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    To adopt our own identities there, to conceal who we are so people will give us the intellectual respect we deserve.  (source)
    intellectual = relating to intelligence and education
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    "Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say.†  (source)
    intellectually = in a manner that relates to intelligence
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    At any rate for notable instances, since these have no vulgar alloy of the brute in them, but invariably are dominated by intellectuality, one must go elsewhere.†  (source)
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intellectual as in:  She is an intellectual.

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    Adam Smith was a leading intellectual of his time.
    intellectual = a highly educated person interested in learning and exploring ideas
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    She uses a subtle satire that appeals to intellectuals.
    intellectuals = highly educated people interested in ideas
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    A part of me had thought I'd finally be revealed as an intellectual fraud, that the administration would realize they'd made a terrible mistake and send me back to Middletown with their sincerest apologies.  (source)
    intellectual = highly educated person
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    A faction of intellectuals is no army.  (source)
    intellectuals = highly educated people interested in learning and exploring ideas
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    Mrs. Bell was an intellectual and a member of a distinguished Savannah family.  (source)
    intellectual = highly educated person
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    "Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing," he muttered.†  (source)
    Intellectuals = highly educated people interested in learning and exploring ideas -- sometimes while ignoring practical considerations
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    She looked pretty but interesting, like Pete as an intellectual.  (source)
    intellectual = highly educated person
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    They think they're being modern men, intellectuals, on account of their education, I suppose.†  (source)
    intellectuals = highly educated people interested in learning and exploring ideas -- sometimes while ignoring practical considerations
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    Mr. Hale is nearing forty, a tight-skinned, eager-eyed intellectual.  (source)
    intellectual = a highly educated person interested in learning and exploring ideas
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    I think of something I read about Sargent: how, in portraiture, Sargent always looked for the animal in the sitter (a tendency that, once I knew to look for it, I saw everywhere in his work: in the long foxy noses and pointed ears of Sargent's heiresses, in his rabbit-toothed intellectuals and leonine captains of industry, his plump owl-faced children).†  (source)
    intellectuals = highly educated people interested in learning and exploring ideas -- sometimes while ignoring practical considerations
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    Playing the stock market, of course, the last refuge in the world for the dangerous intellectual out of a job.  (source)
    intellectual = highly educated person
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    One of the reactionary intellectuals who attacked the Party and socialism?†  (source)
    intellectuals = highly educated people interested in learning and exploring ideas -- sometimes while ignoring practical considerations
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    He traded with them, standing there dripping with sweat in summer and shivering in the winter frosts, inflexible, obstinately true to his own ideas: if, as an intellectual, he could have no other contact with books then at least he would have this, and he would not sink any lower.  (source)
    intellectual = highly educated person interested in ideas
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