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comprehension collapse: an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result); "how you can do that is beyond my comprehension"; "he was famous for his comprehension of American literature"

reason collapse: the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil"; a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion; "there is reason to believe he is lying"; an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon; "the reason a steady state was never reached was that the back pressure built up too slowly"; a rational motive for a belief or action; "the reason that war was declared"; "the grounds for their declaration"; think logically; "The children must learn to reason"; decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion; "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house"

intelligent collapse: having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree; "is there intelligent life in the universe?"; "an intelligent question"; endowed with the capacity to reason; possessing sound knowledge; "well-informed readers"

logic collapse: reasoned and reasonable judgment; "it made a certain kind of logic"; a system of reasoning; the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation; "economic logic requires it"; "by the logic of war"; the system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations; the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference

intellectual collapse: a person who uses the mind creatively; appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature"; of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"; of or relating to the intellect; "his intellectual career"

intelligence collapse: the operation of gathering information about an enemy; the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience; secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy); "we sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage"; a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy

intelligence quotient collapse: a measure of a person's intelligence as indicated by an intelligence test; the ratio of a person's mental age to their chronological age (multiplied by 100)

conception collapse: the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon

cerebral collapse: involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"; of or relating to the cerebrum or brain; "cerebral hemisphere"; "cerebral activity"

mental collapse: affected by a disorder of the mind; "a mental patient"; "mental illness"; involving the mind or an intellectual process; "mental images of happy times"; "mental calculations"; "in a terrible mental state"; "mental suffering"; "free from mental defects"; of or relating to the chin- or liplike structure in insects and certain mollusks; of or relating to the mind; "mental powers"; "mental development"; "mental hygiene"

understanding collapse: the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"; characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy; "an understanding friend"

thinking collapse: the process of using your mind to consider something carefully; "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought"

rational collapse: having its source in or being guided by the intellect (distinguished from experience or emotion); "a rational analysis"; consistent with or based on or using reason; "rational behavior"; "a process of rational inference"; "rational thought"; capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers; "rational numbers"

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