intelligentsia
[noun]
Synonyms: intellectuals, highbrows, literati

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Related Words: avant-garde, vanguard

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in‧tel‧li‧gent‧si‧a /ɪnˌteləˈdʒentsiə, ɪnˌtelɪˈdʒentsiə/ noun
[Word Family: noun: intelligence, intelligentsia, intelligibility; adverb: intelligently, intelligibly; adjective: intelligent ≠ UNINTELLIGENT, intelligible ≠ unintelligible]
[Date: 1900-2000; Language: Russian; Origin: intelligentsiya, from Latin intelligentia 'intelligence']
the intelligentsia the people in a society who are most highly educated and who are most interested in new ideas, especially in art, literature, or politics

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