inteligência
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See also: inteligencia
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- intelligencia, intelligência (pre-standardization spelling)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin intellegentia (“intelligence”). Doublet of intelligentsia.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: in‧te‧li‧gên‧ci‧a
Noun
inteligência f (usually uncountable, plural inteligências)
- intelligence (capacity of mind)
- Synonyms: intelecto, discernimento, juízo, entendimento
- Antonyms: burrice, estupidez
- (military, espionage) intelligence; intel (secret information about the enemy)
- intelligence agency (governmental agency devoted to gathering information for national security)
- (politics) intelligentsia (the intellectual elite of a society, particularly in Marxist doctrine)
- Synonym: intelligentsia