An intellectual is someone who spends a lot of time studying and thinking about complicated ideas.
Highly respected person.
Highly respected person.
Our ancestors were eminent intellectual.
by Pranjal22.02 March 3, 2022
Get the eminent intellectual mug.An individual who spends more time trying to flex their intellect rather than actually wanting to learn. Pseudo-intellectuals aren't unintelligent or uneducated per se, however the crux of the issue is that they are not as intelligent as they are letting on. For example, to be an intellect on a specific subject, an intellectual would read multiple books or articles then study them in order to retain all the information. A pseudo-intellectual would read one article and label themselves an expert on the subject.
Ways to spot a pseudo-intellectual
1. Plagiarising
2. Quoting
3. Using advanced language to make themselves sound smart, but fails because they use the word incorrectly
4. They use their knowledge as a weapon. For example smart people want to pass on the knowledge they have to other people to inform them on a certain subject. Pseudo-intellectuals on the other hand seek to impress and show off, so put others down to increase their feelings of superiority and lower the self worth of others for their own personal gain
5. They like to start arguments whether it is on politics, philosophy, religion or science, but it ends up backfiring on them due to only retaining snippets of information on these topics, but not the full story, whereas their opponent has been pre-educated before the debate and read multiples books and sources on the topic throughly, thus absolutely thrashing the pseudo-intellectual in a debate. Ultimately never begin a debate on something you know nothing about because people will get the impression thag you're just desperate to flex your knowledge when there probably isn't much of it.
1. Plagiarising
2. Quoting
3. Using advanced language to make themselves sound smart, but fails because they use the word incorrectly
4. They use their knowledge as a weapon. For example smart people want to pass on the knowledge they have to other people to inform them on a certain subject. Pseudo-intellectuals on the other hand seek to impress and show off, so put others down to increase their feelings of superiority and lower the self worth of others for their own personal gain
5. They like to start arguments whether it is on politics, philosophy, religion or science, but it ends up backfiring on them due to only retaining snippets of information on these topics, but not the full story, whereas their opponent has been pre-educated before the debate and read multiples books and sources on the topic throughly, thus absolutely thrashing the pseudo-intellectual in a debate. Ultimately never begin a debate on something you know nothing about because people will get the impression thag you're just desperate to flex your knowledge when there probably isn't much of it.
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Get the Pseudo-Intellectual mug.A person who posts grossly misinformed, disingenuous, or flat out deceptive shit on TikTok about politics or science and smugly and delusionally acts as though they are experts on the subject.
Rhonda posted a video about how climate change is the result of rich white people driving luxury cars. What a TikTok Intellectual.
by JohnWashington December 19, 2023
Get the TikTok Intellectual mug.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 4, 2024
Get the Costco intellectual mug.The conscious part of your mind that is filled with nothing but raw power and divine strength. This angelic esscence can be built up by adding more power, or be lowered by lessening the amount of power that it posseses. This part of your mind can be triggered and/or activated by inspiring and powerful interactions, such as videos, music, images, or even physical experiences. When ones Divine Intellect Transcendance has been activated, the concious mind holds an amount of raw power and true strength, and the more of this esscence one holds, the more powerful and strong this person becomes. With enough of this divine esscence, one can have enough power and strength to carry the largest of weights, climb the tallest of mountains, achieve the highest of honours, and accomplish the unthinkable. Once this essence is triggered, and fuelled with enough power, there is nothing that anyone cannot accomplish.
Divine Intellect Transcendance example:
*The quiet kid is called up to the board breaker in martial arts. The strongest guy in the group went before him, and broke 10 boards without flinching. When everybody in the crowd is talking away, the kids favourite song begins to play on a stereo nearby, and when the main chorus is building up, he keeps stacking board after board after board, until he has a stack of 50 wood boards on his bench. Everybody quiets down, the chorus is just on the horizon, and in a flash of lightning, all the boards were broken in an instant, showing that physical strength is the lowest of powers, only the highest of untruths*
*The quiet kid is called up to the board breaker in martial arts. The strongest guy in the group went before him, and broke 10 boards without flinching. When everybody in the crowd is talking away, the kids favourite song begins to play on a stereo nearby, and when the main chorus is building up, he keeps stacking board after board after board, until he has a stack of 50 wood boards on his bench. Everybody quiets down, the chorus is just on the horizon, and in a flash of lightning, all the boards were broken in an instant, showing that physical strength is the lowest of powers, only the highest of untruths*
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