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Meaning of "intellectualist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INTELLECTUALIST

intellectualist  [ˌɪntɪˈlɛktʃʊəlɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INTELLECTUALIST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Intellectualist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INTELLECTUALIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

intellectualist

Intellectualism

Intellectualism denotes the use, development, and exercise of the intellect; the practice of being an intellectual; and the Life of the Mind. In the field of philosophy, “intellectualism” occasionally is synonymous with “rationalism”, that is, knowledge mostly derived from reason and ratiocination. Socially, “intellectualism” negatively connotes: single-mindedness of purpose and emotional coldness.

Definition of intellectualist in the English dictionary

The definition of intellectualist in the dictionary is a person who attaches great importance to intellectual pursuits.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INTELLECTUALIST


actualist
ˈæktʃʊəlɪst
analyst
ˈænəlɪst
conceptualist
kənˈseptʃʊəlɪst
dualist
ˈdjʊəlɪst
duellist
ˈdjʊəlɪst
factualist
ˈfæktʃʊəlɪst
gradualist
ˈɡrædjʊəlɪst
homosexualist
ˌhɒməˈsɛkʃʊəlɪst
individualist
ˌɪndɪˈvɪdjʊəlɪst
mutualist
ˈmjuːtʃʊəlɪst
pansexualist
pænˈsɛkʃʊəlɪst
perpetualist
pəˈpetʃʊəlɪst
punctualist
ˈpʌŋktʃʊəlɪst
sensualist
ˈsɛnsjʊəlɪst
sexualist
ˈsɛkʃʊəlɪst
specialist
ˈspɛʃəlɪst
spiritualist
ˈspɪrɪtjʊəlɪst
textualist
ˈtɛkstʃʊəlɪst
virtualist
ˈvɜːtʃʊəlɪst
visualist
ˈvɪzjʊəlɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INTELLECTUALIST

intellect
intellection
intellective
intellectively
intellectual
intellectual property
intellectualisation
intellectualiser
intellectualism
intellectualistic
intellectualistically
intellectuality
intellectualization
intellectualize
intellectualizer
intellectually
intellectually handicapped
intellectualness
intellidating
intelligence

WORDS THAT END LIKE INTELLECTUALIST

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brutalist
capitalist
centralist
finalist
fundamentalist
generalist
hospitalist
idealist
mentalist
minimalist
nationalist
naturalist
Orientalist
photojournalist
realist
removalist
sensationalist
serialist
socialist
vocalist

Synonyms and antonyms of intellectualist in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «intellectualist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INTELLECTUALIST

Find out the translation of intellectualist to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of intellectualist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «intellectualist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

知识分子
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

intelectualista
570 millions of speakers

English

intellectualist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

intellectualist
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

intellectualist
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

интеллигентский
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

intelectualista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

intellectualist
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

intellectualiste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Intelektualis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

intellektualistischen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

intellectualist
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

intellectualist
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Intelektual
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

intellectualist
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

intellectualist
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बौद्धिकवादी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

entellektüel
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

intellettualistica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

intelektualista
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

інтелігентський
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

intelectualistă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διανοουμενιστικές
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

intellectualist
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

intellektualistiska
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

intellectualist
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of intellectualist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INTELLECTUALIST»

The term «intellectualist» is normally little used and occupies the 147.063 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INTELLECTUALIST» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «intellectualist» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «intellectualist» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about intellectualist

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INTELLECTUALIST»

Discover the use of intellectualist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to intellectualist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Contemporary Theories of Knowledge
3.2 The Intellectualist Model If reasoning is governed by epistemic norms, just how is it governed? There is a model of this regulative process that is often implicit in episte- mological thinking, but when we make the model explicit it is obviously ...
John L. Pollock, Joseph Cruz, 1999
2
Perspectives on Cognitive Science: Theories, Experiments, ...
Hamad's proposals vis-a-vis symbol grounding amount, perhaps, to a defense of a robotic form of computationalism as against a purely symbolic, "intellectualist", form. Harnad appears to believe that Searle's Chinese Room arguments do not ...
Janet Wiles, Terry Dartnall, 1999
3
Religion and Magic: Approaches and Theories
DESPITE ATTEMPTS BY THE likes of Durkheim and Geertz to define religion in terms that do not require a belief in spiritual beings, many British anthropologists since the Second World War have favoured the earlier intellectualist definition.
Graham Cunningham, 1999
4
Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West: Essays on Magic, ...
1 Complaints about a 'neo-Tylorian' or 'back to Frazer' movement seem to have been touched off by a number of recent challenges to the anti-intellectualist establishment in British social anthropology. For one of the first of these in a colourful ...
Robin Horton, 1997
5
Henry More (1614–1687) Tercentenary Studies: With a ...
even choose not to create the World, and the World that He had to create was the only one possible - namely, of course, the best of all possible worlds.31 There are hints of intellectualist theology even in More's earliest writings, and his ...
S. Hutton, Robert Crocker, 1990
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Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Truth and its Deformities
INTELLECTUALIST POSITIONS As with the pragmatic view, the intellectualist view comes in two varieties. The simple version of the view is the bullet-biting version. When faced with apparent counterexamples to the ubiquitous value of truth, ...
Peter A. French, Howard Wettstein, 2009
7
The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods
The intellectualist always writes with an eye on the anti- intellectualist, and the anti-intellectualist counters upon the intellectualist, but the true opponent of both intellectualist and anti-intellectualist is the man of intuitive common sense.
‎1914
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The Journal of Philosophy
THE DILEMMA OF THE INTELLECTUALIST THEORY OF TRUTH IS the intellectualist in his theory of truth an anarchistic sub- jectivist? Considerably to my own surprise, reflection has convinced me that he usually is. He insists that truth is a ...
‎1909
9
Hume's Radical Scepticism and the Fate of Naturalized ...
14 On my interpretation, this is a claim that Hume affirms because it does not arise simply from adopting the intellectualist persona. So while I agree that Hume's reductio means that he is not a D-sceptic, I maintain that he is still an epistemic ...
Kevin Meeker, 2013
10
Desire, Practical Reason, and the Good
This particular Intellectualist seems to think so, but I have trouble seeing why. So even if the Emotionalist responds to this whole line of thought with nothing but flat -footed disagreement, my sense is that the result is a stalemate at best.27 Does ...
Sergio Tenenbaum, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INTELLECTUALIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term intellectualist is used in the context of the following news items.
1
All of The Strokes albums, ranked worst to best
Simultaneously intellectualist and accessible, Julian's razor sharp wit is backed by an unrelenting wall of distortion that swells and diminishes ... «Gigwise, Jul 15»
2
Jacob Arminius. Theologian of Grace– Part Three
BEN: There is also a strong emphasis early on in the book on what is called the 'intellectualist' approach to the nature of God, which is to say ... «Patheos, Jul 15»
3
The Rising Anti-Intellectualism in China: Part I
In the post-1989 era, an anti-intellectualist agenda was pursued in a more subtle and sophisticated way. By encouraging intellectuals to benefit ... «Council on Foreign Relations, Jun 15»
4
Populism is Out of Control
As historian Richard Pipes explained in a classic study, that term was used to describe the anti-intellectualist wave of the 1870s and the belief ... «teleSUR English, Jun 15»
5
Why “Avengers: Age Of Ultron” Was Almost A Good Movie
This might sound like a typical intellectualist, New Yorker type attack on a mega blockbuster like The Avengers but hear me out. The idea that ... «NYU Local, May 15»
6
Reflections on the skeptic and atheist movements
That particular episode had to do with yielding to the whims of yet another physicist/anti-intellectualist who has become a darling of SAM: ... «Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, May 15»
7
Re-Brand-ing politics
In a move labelled a 'joke' by David Cameron, he sat down with pseudo-intellectualist revolutionary Russell Brand for an interview. While this is ... «The Mancunion, May 15»
8
Henri de Lubac's fascinating notes on Vatican II
The result is a small academic system, ultra-intellectualist without any great intellectuality; the Gospel is forced to fit this system, which is the ... «Catholic Culture, May 15»
9
The GOP's demonic alliance: How the religious right & big business …
From the New Deal era up to the Reagan years, the anti-intellectualist right was mostly focused on defeating communism, as seen with ... «Salon, Apr 15»
10
Cardinal George touched nation, world with his intellect, leadership
"He's the closest thing in recent American church history to what you would think of as sort of the all-star European cardinal intellectualist," ... «The Pilot, Apr 15»

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