Intellect vs. Intuition — What's the Difference?

In the study of the human mind, intellect refers to and identifies the ability of the mind to reach correct conclusions about what is true and what is false, and about how to solve problems. The term intellect derives from the Ancient Greek philosophy term nous, which translates to the Latin intellectus (from intelligere, “to understand”) and into the French and English languages as intelligence.

Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without recourse to conscious reasoning. Different fields use the word "intuition" in very different ways, including but not limited to: direct access to unconscious knowledge; unconscious cognition; inner sensing; inner insight to unconscious pattern-recognition; and the ability to understand something instinctively, without any need for conscious reasoning.The word intuition comes from the Latin verb intueri translated as "consider" or from the late middle English word intuit, "to contemplate".

The ability to learn and reason; the capacity for knowledge and understanding

The ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning

A person's individual ability to think and reason

The faculty of knowing or understanding something without reasoning or proof.

A person of great intellectual ability

An impression or insight gained by the use of this faculty

(uncountable) The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty.

Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.

(uncountable) The capacity of that faculty (in a particular person).

A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.

A person who has that faculty to a great degree.

A looking after; a regard to.

The part or faculty of the human mind by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.

Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or consciousness; - distinguished from "mediate" knowledge, as in reasoning; as, the mind knows by intuition that black is not white, that a circle is not a square, that three are more than two, etc.; quick or ready insight or apprehension.

The capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; mental capacity.

Any object or truth discerned by intuition.

A particular mind, especially a person of high intelligence; as, he was a great intellect.

Any quick insight, recognized immediately without a reasoning process; a belief arrived at unconsciously; - often it is based on extensive experience of a subject.

Knowledge and intellectual ability;

The ability to have insight into a matter without conscious thought; as, his chemical intuition allowed him to predict compound conformations without any conscious calculation; a mother's intuition often tells her what is best for her child.

The capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination;

Instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)

A person who uses the mind creatively

An impression that something might be the case;