superintelligencen.
/ˌsuːp(ə)rɪnˈtɛlᵻdʒ(ə)ns/, /ˌsjuːp(ə)rɪnˈtɛlᵻdʒ(ə)ns/, U.S. /ˌsupərᵻnˈtɛlədʒ(ə)ns/ 1. A super-intelligent being, esp. a spiritual one, or one alien to humankind; spec. God or a god, considered as the creator of intelligent design.
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?1822 R. H. Black Seq. to Student's Man.: Etymol. & Explan. Vocab. at Pro-vide Providence expresses the particular act of providing..[and] is applied to the Divine Superintelligence.
1920 New-Church Rev. Oct. 389 The question of reincarnation, and the hierarchy of Super-Intelligences who are supposed to superintend its complicated workings.
1954 J. Krishnamurti First & Last Freedom xvi. 206 Through lack of intelligence we accept the idea of a super-intelligence which we call ‘God’.
1967 Pop. Mech. Apr. 218/1 A trap to warn some super intelligence that man has taken his first step out into the galaxy.
2002 S. Webb If Universe is teeming with Aliens... Where is Everybody? iv. 137 Unless the super-intelligences felt they had to destroy us..we could go on living as we have always done.
2006 R. Dawkins God Delusion ii. 58 The presence or absence of a creative super-intelligence is unequivocably a scientific question.
2. The capacity to apprehend what is beyond the normal range of human intelligence or understanding; spiritual or paranormal insight or awareness, spiritualism. Later also in extended use. Now rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > spirituality > [noun] > spiritual faculties
eyesightc1175
spiritual1649
superintelligence1839
1839 G. Field Outl. Analogic. Philos. II. 329 When the mind, over-soaring the bounds of that analogy upon which reason and knowledge depend, affects to enter this region of superintelligence.
1856 Brownson's Q. Rev. July 358 Man has, as Gioberti has well maintained, the faculty of sovrintelligenza, super-intelligence,..a mysterious faculty..that takes note of the fact that there is more than we know, or by our natural faculties can know.
1857 E. W. Robert tr. A. de Gasparin Sci. vs. Mod. Spiritualism II. 411 The super-intelligence of the tables and mediums.
1892 Catholic World Sept. 921 In man there is a true superintelligence, a power of spiritual perception.
1922 Inland Printer Oct. 67/1 Many a brilliant editor..was under deep obligation to the superintelligence of some poor comp. who..was enabled to divine what the writer of brilliant editorials desired to say but certainly did not write.
3. Greater than normal intelligence; great intellectual power or ability.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > high intelligence, genius > [noun]
wit1297
ingeny1474
inginea1522
ingenuity1600
flame1642
genius1749
iridescency1799
iridescence1803
brilliance1807
brilliancy1842
superintelligence1876
ingenium1879
1876 M. M. Dodge Theophilus & Others 110 The miraculous and sudden appearance (in the newly-rich man) of super-intelligence and all the cardinal virtues.
1901 Tyrone (Pa.) Herald 20 June In addition to their [sc. the elephants'] super-intelligence they are endowed with the best nature and enjoy the association with the children.
1916 Living Age 19 Aug. 457/1 For all their belief in themselves, their super-intelligence and their Kultur, the German people are no Imperial race.
1950 Olean (N.Y.) Times Herald 7 Sept. 6/6 Super-intelligence, willingness and reliability under gunfire are requirements for the K-9 Corps.
2007 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 20 Aug. g3 Movie nerds, typically science or computer whizzes whose superintelligence makes up for social and physical limitations.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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