Synonyms and Antonyms of intellection
- notebooks filled with his intellections on an amazing array of topics
apprehension, premonition, presentiment
preconception, prejudice, prepossession
chimera, delusion, hallucination, illusion, phantasm (also fantasm)
caprice, conceit, fancy, freak, kink, vagary, whim
cognition, observation, perception, reflection
assumption, belief, conclusion, conviction
conjecture, guess, hunch, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmise, theory
- ever since Decartes famously declared, "I think, therefore I am," people have tended to regard acts of conscious intellection as proof of their own existence