intelligentsia
intelligentsia
Definition
in·tel·li·gentsia (in tel′ə jent′sē ə; esp. formerly, -gent′-)
the people regarded as, or regarding themselves as, the educated and enlightened class; intellectuals collectively
Etymology: Russ intelligentsiya < L intelligentia: see intelligence
intelligentsia
Synonyms
intelligentsia
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- alienate: This will further alienate the liberal intelligentsia which has never been very enthusiastically Blairite.
- attract: However, although the Arab stage attracted the Arab intelligentsia, it did not achieve a breakthrough.
- create: That means creating a new technical intelligentsia capable of satisfying the needs of our industry.
- work: Our language at the time went like this: Peasants, workers and you, the working intelligentsia!
Adjective modifier
- bourgeois: What attitude should the working class take toward the capitalist class and the bourgeois intelligentsia?
- liberal: Peter Hitchens describes how the liberal intelligentsia has taken over; you are living under New Labor.
- Russian: The newspaper which serves a section of the Russian oppositional intelligentsia gave you a forum.
- revolutionary: Her example was imitated in the circles of the revolutionary intelligentsia, who lacked any mass support.
- socialist: A primitive Socialist intelligentsia is all that is needed.
- radical: Brownâs difficulty, as he acknowledges, is that Britainâs radical intelligentsia has never cared for patriotism.
Modifies a noun
- approval: This is the BBC's cultural channel which is stamped with the kudos of intelligentsia approval.
- today: He does not, however, depart from the stock understanding of the two writers held by the intelligentsia today.
Noun used with modifier
- class: In Third World nationalism it is the middle class intelligentsia oppressed by imperialism.
- petty-bourgeois: The urban workers fought and died, together with revolutionary enthusiasts from the petty-bourgeois intelligentsia.
- toiling: This was an attempt to replace the educated class of the past by what Rakosi called a new " toiling intelligentsia " .
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