Prima facie intellectual people who are conveniently and absurdly hyperintellectual when it comes to carrying out their interests and suddenly without warning sharply anti-intellectual when it comes to protecting their perceived sources of income, donors/patrons/supporters, inter alia. In other words, a hack.
Example 1)
Abomination Intellectual (i.e. A Hack; Satire of an Intellectual Person): "place A is bad, they killed thousands of people via poisoned toothpicks"
Questioner (i.e. Actual Intellectual Person): "place B who funded your talk killed thousands of people via poisoned straws."
Questioner Thinking: "Why are there so many of these abomination intellectuals, fake people, charlatans? who regulates these people?"
Abomination Intellectual: "The hour is up, thank you for coming to my talk." (i.e. the irony is that neglectful silence is anti-intellectual)
Example 2) Abomination Intellectual: "Give me your money and i'll silence your critics intellectually giving you the space to enjoy your ill gotten gains, while the attention is all on me."
Abomination Intellectual (i.e. A Hack; Satire of an Intellectual Person): "place A is bad, they killed thousands of people via poisoned toothpicks"
Questioner (i.e. Actual Intellectual Person): "place B who funded your talk killed thousands of people via poisoned straws."
Questioner Thinking: "Why are there so many of these abomination intellectuals, fake people, charlatans? who regulates these people?"
Abomination Intellectual: "The hour is up, thank you for coming to my talk." (i.e. the irony is that neglectful silence is anti-intellectual)
Example 2) Abomination Intellectual: "Give me your money and i'll silence your critics intellectually giving you the space to enjoy your ill gotten gains, while the attention is all on me."
by Gemma5702 December 16, 2021
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.
by Bah Zah May 05, 2023
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.
by IRainFall January 04, 2024
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.
by dwmcphd March 09, 2022
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.
by Master3x January 07, 2021
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.
by Solid Mantis January 02, 2020
When I hear him/her/they speak about deep things and intellectual topics, I get turned on. I think I am an Intellectual Sexual.
by Chastity Queen March 07, 2021