intellectuality

English

Etymology

From intellectual +‎ -ity, after Late Latin intellectualitas.

Noun

intellectuality (countable and uncountable, plural intellectualities)

  1. The characteristic of being intellectual; intellectual ability. [from 14th c.]
    • 1920, DH Lawrence, Women in Love, Vintage 2008, p. 9:
      [S]he was a woman of the new school, full of intellectuality, and heavy, nerve-worn with consciousness.
  2. An intellectual person; someone supposed to be intellectual. [from 19th c.]
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