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A person who usually lives in a safe, liberal bubble who believes you can run the world as if it's a club designed to keep out poor people. They generally take edge case, nuanced scenarios, or things that can only be done in high trust systems and try to apply them to every situation.
Have you seen her instagram stories? She's such a Costco intellectual.
To think about, consider, and reflect on a deep idea or concept in order to make sense of it and to integrate it into your understanding of the world
When you intellectually digest the ideas behind evolution, you will have a better understanding of how COVID can have repeated waves of infection in a human population.
An intellectual paradox is the phenomenon whereby professionals and academics acknowledge a concept, practice it, write about it, and promote its relevance individually but as a collective lack a consensus on exactly what it is.
The concept of knowledge management suffers from an intellectual paradox.
A group of people that fuels each other. The intellectuals communicate through language the ideas and thoughts of the group, and teach, while the spiritual ones provide (or are) the fuel to the group that keep things going, get things and people heated up about bullshit. Usually they end up making a mushroom cloud of their environment as long as they're in.
The intellectual/spiritual crowd has been trying to take over and run people, places, and things.
When a person is sexually attracted to an individual, because of their intelligence.
When I hear him/her/they speak about deep things and intellectual topics, I get turned on. I think I am an Intellectual Sexual.
A person who has taken 100 level classes at the local junior college in philosophy, psychology, and literature and pretends to be an intellectual by sprinkling obscure references in everyday speech. Somehow a reference to Kierkegaard will suddenly show up when deciding which toppings should go on a pizza. Or some reference they heard from the show Big Bang Theory, without citing the source, about Schrödinger's cat will pop up because they think it will impress everyone.
The comedian Dennis Miller is a good example.
"If John is so smart, why does he work as a dishwasher at Shakey's"
"Don't be fooled, John is a Community College Intellectual with an inferiority complex."
A person who has taken 100 level classes at the local junior college in philosophy, psychology, and literature and pretends to be an intellectual by sprinkling obscure references in everyday speech. Somehow a reference to Kierkegaard will suddenly show up when deciding which toppings should go on a pizza. Or some reference they heard from the show Big Bang Theory, without citing the source, about Schrödinger's cat will pop up because they think it will impress everyone.
"If John is so smart, why does he work as a dishwasher at Shakey's"
"Don't be fooled, John is a Community College Intellectual with an inferiority complex."