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νοημοσύνη — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • brain noun The organ inside the skull that controls thought, memory, emotion, and the rest of the nervous system.
  • intelligence noun The ability to learn, understand, and apply knowledge effectively.
  • understanding noun The mental grasp of what something means or how it works.

Senses

νοημοσύνη is used for these senses in English:

  • brain (in the plural) Intellect.
  • intelligence (mostly, uncountable) The quality of making use or having made use of such capacities: depth of understanding, mental quickness.
  • intelligence (countable) An entity that has such capacities.
  • understanding (countable) Reason or intelligence; ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge; ability to infer.

brain — full definition

  1. noun The organ inside the skull that controls thought, memory, emotion, and the rest of the nervous system.
  2. noun A person's intelligence or mental ability.
  3. noun An especially intelligent person, or the person supplying the ideas behind a plan.
  4. verb Informal: to hit someone hard on the head.

intelligence — full definition

  1. noun The ability to learn, understand, and apply knowledge effectively.
  2. noun Secret information gathered about an enemy, rival, or hostile situation, or the agency that collects it.

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