intelligence
n. uncountablen. the ability to learn, understand, and think about things clearly. You use this word to talk about how smart someone or something is.
n. the capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity. Frequently modified to specify a domain, such as emotional or artificial.
Dogs show a high level of intelligence when they learn new tricks.
The test is designed to measure a child's basic intelligence rather than their specific knowledge of school subjects.
Researchers debate whether human intelligence is a single general ability or a collection of distinct cognitive skills that operate independently across different domains.
From Middle English intelligence, from Old French intelligence, from Latin intelligentia, which is from inter- (“between”) + legere (“to choose, pick out, read”), from Proto-Italic *legō (“to care”). Doublet of intelligentsia.
Uncountable in its primary cognitive sense; often modified by adjectives to specify a type, such as 'artificial' or 'emotional'.