Cleverness vs. Intelligence — What's the Difference?

Mentally quick and original; bright

Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. More generally, it can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.

Skilled at accomplishing things, especially with the hands

The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge

Crafty; cunning

Information, especially secret information gathered about an actual or potential enemy or adversary.

Exhibiting ingenuity or imagination; creative or artful

The gathering of such information

Witty; amusing

An agency or organization whose purpose is to gather such information

Characterized by cunning or shrewdness

An intelligent, incorporeal being, especially an angel.

New England Easily managed; docile

Of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn.

Chiefly Southern US Good-natured; amiable.

The quality of making use or having made use of such capacities: depth of understanding, mental quickness.

The property of being clever.

(countable) An entity that has such capacities.

Something clever, or done cleverly.

, often secret, about an enemy or about hostile activities.

The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.

(countable) A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.

The power of creative imagination

(dated) acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.

Intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty

The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.

The property of being ingenious;

The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.

Information communicated; news; notice; advice.

Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.

Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information.

An intelligent being or spirit; - generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence.

The division within a military organization that gathers and evaluates information about an enemy.

The ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience

A unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy

Secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy);

New information about specific and timely events;

The operation of gathering information about an enemy