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...

by BitchfinderGeneral March 5, 2024

intellectual historical innocence

This kind of innocence is when someone, generally of a younger age or uneducated, is not aware of jokes and references of historical events, and/or is surprised when they find out about it.

This can also be used to define someone that jokes about tragic historical events and/or support these "ideologies" without really knowing what they are about.

py: yo sav check this sus shit out

*shows sav a roblox group that fetishises the a*yan race*
sav: i don't understand
laz: yoooo what the fuck
py: sav, do not lose your intellectual historical innocence
laz: for your own good
sav: uhh what

by KLSFLW March 5, 2024

Intellectual Brazilian

"Intellectual Brazilian” (Dr Urie Bezuidenhout, 2023), this phrase is used in a debate between scholars or specialists where one of them takes a disingenuous stance, despite credible evidence presented in the discussion. The other person then rebukes them, piece by piece, for their indefensible and dogmatic position, almost like exacting death by a thousand cuts. The analogy to a Brazilian wax is that, just like a Brazilian is intended to make the person look good, it is preceded by a painful experience when successive wax strips are ripped off sensitive areas of the recipient's skin. Instead of admitting that they were wrong earlier, they have their argument painfully dismantled in small pieces by the person exacting the "Intellectual Brazilian." The primary aim of this phrase is to maintain a recipient with some dignity at the end, which is considerably better than receiving an intellectual death by a thousand cuts.

The author that doggedly dismissed evidence to the contrary, was given an Intellectual Brazilian over multiple days by an expert in a terse and almost-humiliating fashion.

by Drbezphd January 3, 2024

intellectual panhandling

Knowledge transfer without comprehension, or logical discovery. IE: Being trained vs. educated.

At a higher level this is akin to the Roman relationship with the Greeks, third world technology acquisition, and numerous examples.

The American Military engages in all kinds of intellectual panhandling.

by cbocity September 19, 2016

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.

by Tea76Crumpets796 October 1, 2022

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.

by Pranjal22.02 March 3, 2022

Intellectual/spiritual crowd

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.

by Solid Mantis January 1, 2020