intelligence
The capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn; the ability to process sentient experience to generate true beliefs with a justified degree of confidence.
Other meanings
An individual's expected relative performance in a cognitive test.
The quality of making use or having made use of such capacities: depth of understanding, mental quickness.
Related words
- anti-intelligence
- artificial intelligence
- business intelligence
- counter-intelligence
- counterintelligence
- intel
- intelligence agency
- machine intelligence
- CIA
- IQ
- SIS
- adaptive intelligence
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "intelligentia".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “intelligence” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.