An intellectual is a person who primarily uses intelligence in
either a professional or an individual capacity. As a
substantive or adjective, it refers to the work product of such
persons, to the so-called "life of the mind" generally, or to an
aspect of something where learning, erudition, and informed and
critical thinking are the focus, as in "the intellectual level
of the discourse on the matter was not high". The intellectual
is a specific variety of the intelligent, which unlike the
general property, is strictly associated with reason and
thinking. Many everyday roles require the application of
intelligence to skills that may have a psychomotor component,
for example, in the fields of medicine, sport or the arts, but
these do not necessarily involve the practitioner in the "world
of ideas". The distinctive quality of the intellectual person is
that the mental skills, which he or she demonstrates, are not
simply intelligent, but even more, they focus on thinking about
the abstract, philosophical and eso