Definition of "intellection"
noun
countable and uncountable, plural intellections
(uncountable) The mental activity or process of grasping with the intellect; apprehension by the mind; understanding.
Quotations
None of Mr. Knott's gestures could be called characteristic, unless perhaps that which consisted in the simultaneous obturation of the facial cavities, the thumbs in the mouth, the forefingers in the ears, the little fingers in the nostrils, the third fingers in the eyes and the second fingers, free in a crisis to promote intellection, laid along the temples.
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press