intellectual community
Thinkers and scholars
An intellectual community is a group of people who share ideas, engage in scholarly discourse, and collectively advance knowledge in their fields.
Universities, research institutes, and professional societies form intellectual communities.
The term often implies ongoing dialogue and debate: She found her intellectual community among the graduate students in her department.
Sometimes used broadly to mean thinkers and academics as a class: The intellectual community was divided on the issue.
- scholarsExperts in a field
- philosophersSeekers of fundamental truths
- ivory towerSheltered intellectual enclave
- writersText composition professionals
- scientistsSystematic knowledge seekers
universities · faculty lounge · ethics committees · activists · sociologists · transcendentalists · engineers · grassroots organizers · existentialists · great minds · conferences · debate clubs · art collectives · peer review · think tanks · choreographers · theater troupes · biotechnologists
- faculty perkssabbatical, tenure, research funding, grants, teaching assistants
- intellectual gatheringssalon, symposium, colloquium, seminar, forum
intellectual communitygeneral public
People as a whole
philistines · know-nothings · anti-intellectualism · anti-intellectuals · masses
intellectual communitycommon people
Non-elite members of society
ordinary folk · man on the street · hoi polloi · grassroots · everyman
intellectual communityworking class
Manual laborers collectively
blue-collar workers · manual laborers · tradespeople · doers · practitioners
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