inteligencia

Definitions of inteligencia
  1. noun
    the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience
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    antonyms:
    estupidez, idiotez
    a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience
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    capacidad intelectual
    mental ability
    entendimiento, mente
    knowledge and intellectual ability
    prontitud, viveza
    intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay
    precocidad, repipiez
    intelligence achieved far ahead of normal developmental schedules
    acrimonia, acuidad, agudeza, finura, mordacidad, penetración, picante, sutileza, vivacidad, viveza
    a quick and penetrating intelligence
    habilidad
    intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty
    perspicacia, sagacidad
    intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)
    ingeniosidad, malicia, maña, picardía, socarronería, taima, taimería, zorrería
    shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
    sutileza
    shrewdness shown by keen insight
    type of:
    capacidad, poder
    possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done
  2. noun
    mental ability
    synonyms: capacidad intelectual
  3. noun
    the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
    synonyms: entendimiento, intelecto, mente
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    type of:
    facultad, facultad cognitiva, facultad mental
    one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
  4. noun
    an educated and intellectual elite
    synonyms: intelectualidad, la intelectualidad
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    type of:
    elite, élite
    a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status
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