intellectualiste
French, noun/ɛ̃.tɛ.lɛk.tɥa.list/
intellectualiste is spelled I-N-T-E-L-L-E-C-T-U-A-L-I-S-T-E (16 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 139,724th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Intellectualiste is a French feminine noun meaning “intellectualist” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Métaphysicien qui suit la doctrine de l’intellectualisme”.
What does intellectualiste mean in English?
adjective
- 1
intellectualist
noun
- 1
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Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Métaphysicien qui suit la doctrine de l’intellectualisme.
adjective: 1. Relatif à l’intellectualisme et à ses adeptes. 2. Qui a tendance à favoriser les interprétations abstraites, une théorie purement intellectuelle ou les formulations très cérébrales, jusqu’à souvent rejeter ou obscurcir les explications plus simples, plus plausibles et plus concrètes d’un phénomène.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of intellectualiste
- intellectualistes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce intellectualiste?
- /ɛ̃.tɛ.lɛk.tɥa.list/
- /ɛ̃.te.lɛk.tɥa.list/
- \ɛ̃.te.lɛk.tɥa.list\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is intellectualiste in French?
intellectualiste appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).