intellectual origami

Like word salad but the words coming out of the person speaking actually sound intelligent and enable the speaker to come across as intellectual. Intellectual origami involves sounding intellectual for the sake of sounding intellectual. The speaker will use high profile and scientific sounding words. Think of origami like an intricately folded collection of sharp edges which look impressive, but have much less weight than you’d think.

Paul from Love Is Blind deployed his intellectual origami when speaking or answering any question that production asked him. It would sound impressive, but ultimately it was just a form of intellectual word salad.

Pangea Intellectual Properties

See PanIP.

Pangea Intellectual Properties sued Advanced Battery Systems and about fifty other companies for patent infringment.

Intellectual Masturbation

The act of thinking, discussing, and/or philosophizing to no one’s spiritual, mental, or physical benefit, but purely for the sake of one’s own pleasure, intellectual self-satisfaction, and/or pride.

Note: Not all intellectual and philosophical discussion is intellectual masturbation, it only falls under the definition when it doesn’t benefit those in engaged in it, only harms due to wasted time and an artificial satisfaction in one’s self.

I remember when all I would do was engage in intellectual masturbation on Discord. I would use fancy words and blabber all day about philosophy, without actually applying it in any way whatsoever. I just derived pleasure from hearing myself speak about such abstract and complex subjects. What a fool I was.

Intellectual Masturbation

i.e. this is when one derives sexual pleasure contemplating an object or subject, and/or overthinking something outwith their expertise resulting in grandiosity from confirmation bias

She spent her days in intellectual masturbation over the one that got away...

eminent intellectual

An intellectual is someone who spends a lot of time studying and thinking about complicated ideas.
Highly respected person.

Our ancestors were eminent intellectual.

intellectual crush

1. someone special you love learning theory with

2. your special protest buddy

3. someone who will make time to do local organizing work with you
a cute nerd anyone who fulfills any of the above

"K is my intellectual crush. He's so smart and I love discussing intellectual topics with them."

"My intellectual crush is so cute. She fascinates me with her deep intellectual articles they send me."

Intellectual poisoning

The state of body shut down one goes through after excess studying. Usually happens to college students during finals week. Symptoms include problems communicating to others, ability to stay away, and physical exhaustion.

Damn Billy got intellectual poisoning after preparing for the physics final